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Add to Bookshelf Zone One By Colson Whitehead Read by Beresford Bennett Category: Literary Fiction \| Science Fiction & Fantasy Category: Literary Fiction \| Gothic & Horror \| Science Fiction & Fantasy Category: Literary Fiction \| Gothic & Horror \| Science Fiction & Fantasy \| Audiobooks Jul 10, 2012 \| ISBN 9780307455178 Oct 18, 2011 \| ISBN 9780385535014 Audiobook Download $20.00 Oct 18, 2011 \| 598 Minutes Buy from Other Retailers: Audiobook Download Oct 18, 2011 \| ISBN 9780307940933 \| 598 Minutes See All Formats (2) + Buy the Audiobook Download: About Zone One NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys: A pandemic has devastated the planet, sorting humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead. After the worst of the plague is over, armed forces stationed in Chinatown's Fort Wonton have successfully reclaimed the island south of Canal Street—aka Zone One. Mark Spitz is a member of one of the three-person civilian sweeper units tasked with clearing lower Manhattan of the remaining feral zombies. Zone One unfolds over three surreal days in which Spitz is occupied with the mundane mission of straggler removal, the rigors of Post-Apocalyptic Stress Disorder (PASD), and the impossible task of coming to terms with a fallen world. And then things start to go terribly wrong… At once a chilling horror story and a literary novel by a contemporary master, Zone One is a dazzling portrait of modern civilization in all its wretched, shambling glory. Look for Colson Whitehead's bestselling new novel, Harlem Shuffle! In this wry take on the post-apocalyptic horror novel, a pandemic has devastated the planet. The plague has sorted humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead. Now the plague is receding, and Americans are busy rebuilding civilization under orders from the provisional government based in Buffalo. Their top mission: the resettlement of Manhattan. Armed forces have successfully reclaimed the island south of Canal Street—aka Zone One—but pockets of plague-ridden squatters remain. While the army has eliminated the most dangerous of the infected, teams of civilian volunteers are tasked with clearing out a more innocuous variety—the "malfunctioning" stragglers, who exist in a catatonic state, transfixed by their former lives. Mark Spitz is a member of one of the civilian teams working in lower Manhattan. Alternating between flashbacks of Spitz's desperate fight for survival during the worst of the outbreak and his present narrative, the novel unfolds over three surreal days, as it depicts the mundane mission of straggler removal, the rigors of Post-Apocalyptic Stress Disorder, and the impossible job of coming to grips with the fallen world. And then things start to go wrong. Both spine chilling and playfully cerebral, Zone One brilliantly subverts the genre's conventions and deconstructs the zombie myth for the twenty-first century. Listen to a sample from Zone One Also by Colson Whitehead See all books by Colson Whitehead About Colson Whitehead Colson Whitehead is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground Railroad, which in 2016 won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and the National Book Award and was named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year… More about Colson Whitehead Paperback \| $16.00 Published by Anchor Jul 10, 2012 \| 336 Pages \| 5-3/16 x 8 \| ISBN 9780307455178 Ebook \| $11.99 Oct 18, 2011 \| 288 Pages \| ISBN 9780385535014 Audiobook Download \| $20.00 Published by Random House Audio Oct 18, 2011 \| 598 Minutes \| ISBN 9780307940933 The Water Knife Little Eyes Samanta Schweblin Near the Bone Christina Henry The Children of Men Scott Sigler Contagious "It's a book you want to read rather than one you should read…while still providing the chilling, fleshy pleasures of zombies who lurch, pursue, hunger. . . . One of the best books of the year." —Esquire "Whitehead writes with economy, texture and punch. . . . A cool, thoughtful and, for all its ludic violence, strangely tender novel, a celebration of modernity and a pre-emptive wake for its demise." —The New York Times Book Review "Uniquely affecting. . . . A rich mix of wartime satire and darkly funny social commentary. . . . Whether charged with bleak sadness or bone-dry humor, sentences worth savoring pile up faster than the body count." —The Los Angeles Times "A zombie story with brains. . . . [Whitehead is a] certifiably hip writer who can spin gore into macabre poetry." —The Washington Post "Zone One is not the work of a serious novelist slumming it with some genre-novel cash-in, but rather a lovely piece of writing…Whitehead picks at our nervousness about order's thin grip, suggesting just how flimsy the societal walls are that make possible our hopes and dreams and overly complicated coffee orders." —Entertainment Weekly "Colson Whitehead's Zone One isn't your typical zombie novel; it trades fright-night fodder for empathy and chilling realism…yielding a haunting portrait of a lonely, desolate, and uncertain city." —Elle "The stylistic exuberance on display would be overwhelming if it weren't so well controlled, shifting weightlessly from MAS*H-style battle narrative to a melancholic Blade Runner-like vision of Urban devastation. . . . The smallest of details is marked by originality of language." —The New Statesman "Leave it to the supremely thoughtful and snarkily funny Whitehead to do interesting things with a topic that lately has seated itself in the public's imagination. . . . Not just a juicy experiment in genre fiction but a brilliantly disguised meditation on a 'flatlined culture' in need of its own rejuvenating psychic jolt." —The Seattle Times "If you're going to break down and read a zombie novel, make it this one." —The Wall Street Journal "Stylishly entertaining. . . . [Whitehead's] sentences are interesting, his plotting brisk, his descriptions lucid, and his asides clever." —The Plain Dealer "In precise, elegant prose [Whitehead] deliberately layers the ever more disturbing elements of the story, one upon the other, allowing the reader to discover the horror in the same fragmentary manner we imagine frantic survivors might. . . . Resembles Cormac McCarthy's The Road. . . . An intense meditation on the way we cope with disaster and the stubborn, often inexplicable, persistence of the human will to survive." —Minneapolis Star-Tribune "A sharp commentary on the rat race of contemporary life. . . . Zone One lifts all the gore and gunfire and oozy bits one might expect from the genre. But this is Whitehead, so there's also popular culture to critique and parallels to draw between zombies and contemporary society." —The Houston Chronicle "[Whitehead] takes the genre of horror fiction, mines both its sense of humor and self-seriousness, and emerges with a brilliant allegory of New York living." —New York Observer "Highbrow novelist Colson Whitehead plunges into the unstoppable zombie genre in this subtle meditation on loss and love in a post-apocalyptic Manhattan, which has become the city that never dies." —USA Today "For-real literary—gory, lyrical, human, precise." —GQ "A satirist so playful that you often don't even feel his scalpel, Whitehead toys with the shards of contemporary culture with an infectious glee. Here he upends the tropes of the zombie story in the canyons of lower Manhattan. Horror has rarely been so unsettling, and never so grimly funny." —The Daily Beast Hurston/Wright Legacy Award FINALIST 2012 Looking for More Great Reads? 21 Books You've Been Meaning to Read Download Hi Res Get the latest updates about Colson Whitehead And go from well-read to best read with book recs, deals and more in your inbox every week.
One of the most groundbreaking things about the first Peanuts TV special is Vince Guaraldi's dazzling score. The San Francisco pianist was a key part of the West Coast cool jazz scene, and his graceful piano-trio arrangements sound as hip today as they did in 1965. From the winsome melancholy of "Christmas Time Is Here" to the sparkling joy of "Skating," Guaraldi captures the mixed emotions at the heart of Charles Schulz's characters. And don't forget the downright funky groove of "Linus and Lucy."
Abbey of Sant'Antimo Albarese Archipelago Toscano Bolsena Lake Castelmuzio Chinaciano Terme Diaccia Botrona Gerfalco Montagnola Senese Montemassi Paganico San Giovanni d'Asso Val di Merse Valle d'Ombrone N L Castelfiorentino Castelfiorentino is a country town plunged into Chianti green hills. Our territory goes proud of its numerous significant masterpieces, such as the frescoes attributed to Benozzo Gozzoli, the Church of S. Verdiana, Oliveto Castle, but not of less value are the many aristocratic villas built in the area of Meleto, Granaiolo, Cambiano, Cabbiavoli and Montorsoli noted for their historical and architectural prominence. Main sights Collegia church of Sts. Lawrence and Leonard (13th-14th centuries). It houses a crucifix by Giovanni Pisano (14th century). Romanesque-Gothic church of St. Francis (13th century), with a Madonna with Child by Taddeo Gaddi, and other works by Cenni di Francesco, Giovanni del Biondo and other 15th century Florentine schools paintings. Pieve (pleban church) of Santi Ippolito e Biagio, with a 14th-century crucifix and two 15th-century frescoes Oratory of Santi Lorenzo e Barbara. Sanctuary of Santa Verdiana (18th century) Romanesque pieve of Santi Pietro e Paolo, at Coiano (11th century) According to a popular legend, Membrino was the name of a boy, who, in XVI century, saved the town from the enemies' attack, warning the inhabitants. Population, to express its gratitude, put a simbolic portrait on the bell of the clock town , in order to remember him. Nowadays the bell tower is called: "Membrino". The Francigena trail is a medieval route that linked Canterbury to Rome. Castelfiorentino was crossed by the Francigena Trail. The path ran along the current town of Gambassi Terme, Castelfiorentino, Certaldo, Poggibonsi and San Gimignano; from here pilgrims continued towards Siena and Rome. Castelfiorentino has a new museum in a building designed specifically for the frescoes of one of the most important painters of the Renaissance. The Museo Benozzo Gozzoli was conceived and constructed for the purpose of giving a home to the frescoes which Benozzo painted for two chapels built near the city. The frescoes, which have been completely restored, are those of the Tabernacolo della Madonna della Tosse (Chapel of Our Lady of the Cough) and those of the Visitation. Museum Benozzo Gozzoli in Castelfiorentino During his career, Benozzo Gozzoli engaged several times in the decoration of tabernacle/oratory monuments situated on main roads used by travellers and pilgrims. The most significant of these in terms of size and commission were perhaps the two he did for Castelfiorentino. Two monumental shrines, of proportions similar to those of true chapels were frescoed by Benozzo Gozzoli at Castelfiorentino, on the initiative of a single client, Ser Grazia di Francesco, prior of Santa Maria at Castelnuovo Val d'Elsa: the Shrine of the Madonna della Tosse, and the Shrine of the Visitation. Among the assistants who were given the job of translating the master's ideas into painting was probably his son Francesco. The Tabernacolo della Madonna della Tosse was frescoed in 1484. This chapel, situated on the road which leads to Castelnuovo d'Elsa, became important to folk devotion. The townsfolk would take their children to this chapel to preserve them from the 'bad cough', which was wide-spread and from which children sometimes died. Detached and restored in 1970, they have been remounted in the Biblioteca Comunale. The Tabernacolo della Madonna delle Grazie (Chapel of Our Lady of Grace), or of the Visitation, was built in 1491. The Shrine of the Visitation was located on Via Volterrana in Castelfiorentino, on a piece of land belonging to the Minorite nunnery of Santa Maria. Besides the hand of Benozzo, that of his sons, and helpers, Alesso and Frencesco, can also be detected. The scenes from the life of the Virgin in the fresco were taken from the apocryphal Gospels. In the 1860s, the frescoes were detached from their original location, where they had been exposed to the inclemency of weather and to the floods of the Elsa River. Museum Benozzo Gozzoli Via Testaferrata, Castelfiorentino www.museobenozzogozzoli.it Zelfportret (Opus Benotii) in de Cappella dei Magi in Palazzo Medici-Ricardi Farneta, Folano and Lucignano Farneta Abbey Abbazia di Farneta
Congratulations, you have now been admitted into Michigan State University and Lyman Briggs College! Now is the time to learn more about your future home! At an admitted student visit you will learn all about Lyman Briggs College and we hope to help you determine if it is the best fit for you! During your visit, you will have a presentation about Lyman Briggs, meet a Briggs faculty member, ask questions to current Briggs students through a student panel, receive a guided tour of Lyman Briggs, and see one of our suite-style rooms within Holmes Hall. When ordering your ticket you will need to include yourself and any guest that you plan on bringing. We need an accurate number of guest as the room size is limited to the number of people. We will be releasing more admitted student visit days for next month but will not release the dates till about a month before. If you have not yet toured Michigan State University, we encourage you to do so. To schedule your visit please click this link: https://admissions.msu.edu/visit/.
1. British nationality by virtue of citizenship. 2. Continuation of certain citizens of Eire as British subjects. 3. Limitation of criminal liability of citizens of countries mentioned in section 1(3) and Eire. Status of citizens of Eire and British protected persons. 6. Registration of citizens of countries mentioned in section 1(3) or of Eire and wives of citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies. 8. Registration in countries mentioned In section 1(3), Colonies, etc. 9. Effect of registration as a citizen. 10. Naturalisation of aliens and British protected persons. 11. Power to specify citizens by Order in Council on incorporation of territory. 12. British subjects before commencement of Act becoming citizens of United Kingdom and Colonies. 13. British subjects whose citizenship has not been ascertained at the commencement of this Act. 14. Women who have ceased to be British subjects by reason of marriage. 15. Persons who have ceased to be British subjects by failure to make declaration of retention of British nadonaiity. 16. Persons who have ceased to be British subjects on loss of British nationality by parent. 17. Registration of births occurring before commencement of Act. 18. Applications for naturalisation pending at the commencement of Act. 19. Renunciation of citizenship by reason of dual citizenship or nationality. 21. Deprivation of citizenship of United Kingdom and Colonies where persons deprived of citizenship elsewhere. 22. Deprivation in colonies and other territories. 25. Certificate of citizenship in case of doubt. 26. Discretion of Secretary of State, Governor or High Commissioner. 29. Orders in Council, regulations and rules. 30. Protectorates and protected States. 31. Assimilation of status of natural-born and other British subjects under existing enactments. 33. Channel Islands and Isle of Man. 34. Short title, commencement and repeal. An Act to make provision for British nationality and for citizenship of the United Kingdom and Colonies and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid. 1. British nationality by virtue of citizenship.- (1) Every person who under this Act is a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies or who under any enactment for the time being in force in any country mentioned in sub-section (3) of this section is a citizen of that country shall by virtue of that citizenship have the status of a British subject. (2) Any person having the status aforesaid may be known either as British subject or as a Commonwealth citizen; and accordingly in this Act and in any other enactment or instrument whatever, whether passed or made before or after the commencement of this Act, the expression "British subject" and the expression "Commom-wealth citizen" shall have the same meaning. (3) The following are the countries hereinafter referred to, that is to say.- Canada, Australia, New Zealand [* * * ] [], India, Pakistan, [Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland], Ceylon, [Nigeria], [Tanganyika [and Jamiaca]] [Malaysia], [Kenya], [Malawi],[Malta,] [Guyana,] [Botswana] [Lesotho,] [Singapore,] [Barbados,] [and Mauritius]. (c) that he has associations by way of descent, residence or otherwise with the United Kingdom or with any colony or protectorate or any such territory as aforesaid. (2) A claim under the foregoing sub-section may be made on behalf of a child who has not attained the age of sixteen years by any person who satisfies the Secretary of State that he is a parent or guardian of the child. (3) If by any enactment for the time being in force in any country mentioned in sub-section (3) of section one of this Act provision corresponding to the foregoing provisions of this section is made for enabling citizens of Eire to claim to remain British subjects, any person who by virtue of that enactment is a British subject shall be deemed also to be a British subject by virtue of this section. Provided that nothing in this sub-section shall apply to the contravention of any provision of the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894 to 1948. (2) Subject to the provisions of this section, any law in force in any part of the United Kingdom and Colonies or in any protectorate or United Kingdom trust territory at the date of the commencement of this Act, whether by virtue of a rule of law or of an Act of Parliament or any other enactment or instrument whatsoever, and any law which by virtue of any Act of Parliament passed before that date comes into force in any such place as aforesaid on or after that date shall, until provision to the contrary is made by the authority having power to alter that law, continue to have effect in relation to citizens of Eire who are not British subjects in like manner as it has effect in relation to British subjects. (3) In the Aliens Restriction Acts, 1914 and 1919, and in any order made thereunder the expression "alien" shall not include a British protected person. (d) that person is born in any country mentioned in sub-section (3) of section one of this Act in which a Citizenship law has then taken effect and does not become a citizen thereof on birth. (2) If the Secretary of State so directs, a birth shall be deemed for the purposes of this section to have been registered with his permission notwithstanding that his permission was not obtained before the registration. (b) that he is in Crown service under His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom. (2) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (3) of this section, a woman who has been married to a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies shall be entitled, on making application therefor to the Secretary of State in the prescribed manner, and, if she is a British protected person or an alien, on taking an oath of allegiance in the form specified in the First Schedule to this Act to be registered as a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies, whether or not she is of full age and capacity. (3) A person who has renounced, or has been deprived of, citizenship of the United Kingdom and Colonies under this Act shall not be entitled to be registered as a citizen thereof under this section, but may be so registered with the approval of the Secretary of State. 7. Registration of minors.- (1) The Secretary of State may cause the minor child of any citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies to be registered as a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies upon application made in the prescribed manner by a parent or guardian of the child. (2) The Secretary of State may, in such special circumstances as he thinks fit, cause any minor to be registered as a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies. 8. Registration in countries mentioned In section 1(3), Colonies, etc.- (1) The functions of the Secretary of State under the last two foregoing sections shall in any colony, protectorate or United Kingdom trust territory be exercised by the Governor; and those sections shall, in their application to any colony, protectorate or United Kingdom trust territory, have effect as if for references therein to the Secretary of State there were substituted references to the Governor. and as if for the reference in the first of the said sections to ordinary residence in the United Kingdom there were substituted a reference to ordinary residence in that colony, protectorate or territory as the case may be. (2) The Secretary of State may make arrangements for the exercise in any functions under the last two foregoing sections by the High Commissioner for His country mentioned in sub section (3) of section one of this Act of any of His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom. 9. Effect of registration as a citizen.- A person registered under any of the last three foregoing sections shall be a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by registration as from the date on which he is registered. 10. Naturalisation of aliens and British protected persons.- (1) The Secretary of State may, if application therefor is made to him in the prescribed manner by any alien or British protected person of full age and capacity who satisfies him that he is qualified under the provisions of the Second Schedule to this Act for naturalisation, grant to him a certificate of naturalisation; and the person to whom the certificate is granted shall, on taking an oath of allegiance in the form specified in the First Schedule to this Act, be a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by naturalisation as from the date on which that certificate is granted. (2) The functions of the Secretary of State under the last foregoing sub-section shall in any colony, protectorate or United Kingdom trust territory be exercised by the Governor; but he shall not grant a certificate of naturalisation except with the approval of the Secretary of State. 11. Power to specify citizens by Order in Council on incorporation of territory.- (1) If any territory becomes a part of the United Kingdom and Colonies, His Majesty may by Order in Council specify the persons who shall be citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies by reason of their connection with that territory: and those persons shall be citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies as from a date to be specified in the Order. (c) that he became a British subject by reason of the annexation of any territory included at the commencement of this Act in the United Kingdom and Colonies. (2) A person who was a British subject immediately before the date of the commencement of this Act shall on that date become a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies if at the time of his birth his father was a British subject and possessed any of the qualifications specified in the last foregoing sub-section. (3) A person who was a British subject immediately before the date of the commencement of this Act shall on that date become a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies if he was born within the territory comprised at the commencement of this Act in a protectorate, protected State or United Kingdom trust territory. (b) he is then potentially a citizen of any country mentioned in sub-section (3) of section one of this Act. (5) A woman who was a British subject immediately before the date of the commencement of this Act and has before that date been married to a person who becomes, or would but for his death have become, a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by virtue of any of the foregoing provisions of this section shall on that date herself become such a citizen. (b) that he intends to make his ordinary place of residence within the United Kingdom and Colonies, then, if it seems to the Secretary of State fitting that that person should by reason of his close connection with the United Kingdom and Colonies become a citizen thereof, the Secretary of State may cause him, and any minor children to whom the application relates, to be registered as such; and that person, and any such minor children as aforesaid, shall thereupon become citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies. (7) The Secretary of State may make arrangements for the exercise in any country mentioned in sub-section (3) of section 1 of this Act of any of his functions under the last foregoing sub-section by the High Commissioner for His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom. (8) A male person who becomes a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by virtue only of sub-section (2), (4) or (6) of this section shall be deemed for the purpose of the proviso to sub-section (1) of section 5 of this Act to be a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by descent only. 13. British subjects whose citizenship has not been ascertained at the commencement of this Act.- (1) A person who was it British subject immediately before the date of commencement of this'Act and is at that date potentially a citizen of any country mentioned in sub-section (3) of section 1 of this Act, but is not at that date a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies or of any country mentioned in that sub-section or Eire, shall as from that date remain a British subject without citizenship until he becomes a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies, a citizen of any country mentioned in sub-section (3) of section I of this Act, a citizen of Eire or an alien; and the provisions of the Third Schedule to this Act shall have effect in relation to a person who remains a British subject without citizenship by virtue of this section. (2) A person remaining a British subject without citizenship as aforesaid shall become a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies on the day on which a citizenship law has taken effect in each of the countries mentioned in sub-section (3) of section 1 of this Act of which he is potentially a citizen, unless he then becomes or has previously become a citizen of any country mentioned in sub-section (3) of section 1 of this Act, or has previously become a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies, a citizen of Eire or an alien. (3) A male person who becomes a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by virtue of the last foregoing sub-section shall be deemed for the purposes of the proviso to sub-section (1) of section 5 of this Act to be a citizen thereof by descent only. 14. Women who have ceased to be British subjects by reason of marriage.- A woman who, having before the commencement of this Act married any person, ceased on that marriage or during the continuance thereof to be a British subject shall be deemed for the purposes of this Act to have been a British subject immediately before the commencement of this Act. 15. Persons who have ceased to be British subjects by failure to make declaration of retention of British nadonaiity.- (1) Where any person whose British nationality depended upon his birth having been registered at a Consulate of His Majesty has, under any enactment in force at any time before the commencement of this Act, ceased to be a British subject by reason of his failure to make a declaration of retention of British nationality after becoming of full age, that person shall, if he would, but for that failure, have been a British subject immedi ately before the commencement of this Act, be deemed for the purposes of this Act then to have been a British subject. (2) In determining for the purposes of this section whether a woman who has married an alien would, but for her failure to make a declaration of retention of British nationality, have been a British subject immediately before the commencement of this Act the marriage shall be disregarded. (b) would, but for the provisions of that sub-section, have been either a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies or a British subject without citizenship under section 13 of this Act; and in determining for the purposes of this section whether a woman who has married an alien would, but for those provisions, have been such a citizen or subject, the marriage shall be disregarded. (2) If any person to whom this section applies makes a declaration in the prescribed manner, within one year after the commencement of this Act or after his attaining the age of twenty-one years, whichever is later, or such longer period as the Secretary of State may allow, of his intention to resume British nationality, the Secretary of State shall cause the declaration to be registered; and thereupon that person shall become a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies or, as the case may be, a British subject without citizenship; and if he becomes a British subject without citizenship, section 13 of this Act shall apply to him accordingly. 17. Registration of births occurring before commencement of Act.- Notwithstanding the repeal by this Act of the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act, 1943, the birth of a person born before the date of the commencement of this Act may be registered after that date at a Consulate of His Majesty as defined in that Act; and if the birth is registered in the circumstances specified in sub-section (2) of section 1 of that Act, that person shall be deemed for the purposes of this Act to have been a British subject immediately before the commencement of this Act. 18. Applications for naturalisation pending at the commencement of Act.- (1) Any application for a certificate of naturalisation, or for the inclusion of the name of a child in a certificate of naturalisation, made before the date of the commencement of this Act but not granted at that date may be treated as if it were an application for a certificate of naturalisation or for the registration of a minor child as a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies under this Act if the Secretary of State, or the Governor or other person to whom the application is made, is satisfied that the person to whom the application relates is qualified therefor. (2) Where a certificate of naturalisation has been granted before, and the applicant takes the oath of allegiance after the commencement of this Act, the certificate shall be deemed for the purpose of this Act to have taken effect immediately before the commencement of this Act. Provided that the Secretary of State may withhold registration of any such declaration if it is made during any war in which His Majesty may be engaged by a person who is a national of a foreign country. (2) For the purposes of this section, any woman who has been married shall be deemed to be of full age. 20. Deprivation of citizenship.- (1) A citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies who is such by registration (including a person registered under sub-section (6) of section 12 of this Act) or is a naturalised person shall cease to be a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies if he is deprived of that citizenship by an order of the Secretary of State made under this or the next following section. (2) Subject to the provisions of this section, the Secretary of State may by order deprive any such citizen of his citizenship if he is satisfied that the registration or certificate of naturalisation was obtained by means of fraud, false representation or the concealment of any material fact. (c) has within five years after becoming naturalised been sentenced in any country to imprisonment for a term of not less than twelve months. (5) The Secretary of State shall not deprive a person of citizenship under this section unless he is satisfied that it is not conductive to the public good that the person should continue to be a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies. (6) Before making an order under this section the Secretary of State shall give the person against whom the order is proposed to be made notice in writing informing him of the ground on which it is proposed to be made and, if the order is proposed to be made on any of the grounds specified in sub-sections (2) and (3) of this section, of his right to an enquiry under this section. (7) If the order is proposed to be made on any of the grounds specified in sub-sections (2) and (3) of this section and that person applies in the prescribed manner for an inquiry, the Secretary of State shall, and in any other case the Secretary of State may, refer the case to a committee of inquiry consisting of a chairman, being a person possessing judicial experience, appointed by the Secretary of State and of such other members appointed by the Secretary of State as he thinks proper. 22. Deprivation in colonies and other territories.- The functions of the Secretary of State under the last two foregoing sections shall, in any colony, protectorate or United Kingdom trust territory, be exercised by the Governor; but he shall not make an order depriving any person of citizenship of the United Kingdom and Colonies except with the approval of the Secretary of State. 23. Legitimated children.- (1) A person born out of wedlock and legitimated by the subsequent marriage of his parents shall, as from the date of the marriage or of the commencement of this Act, whichever is later, be treated, for the purpose of determining whether he is a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies or was a British subject immediately before the commencement of this Act, as if he had been born legitimate. (2) A person shall be deemed for the purposes of this section to have been legitimated by the subsequent marriage of his parents if, by the law of the place in which his father was domiciled at the time of the marriage, the marriage operated immediately or subsequently to legitimate him, and not otherwise. 24. Posthumous children.- Any reference in this Act to the status or description of the father of a person at the time of that person's birth shall, in relation to a person born after the death of his father, be construed as a reference to the status or description of the father at the time of the father's death; and where that death occurred before, and the birth occurs after, the commencement of this Act, the status or description which would have been applicable to the father had he died after the commencement of this Act shall be deemed to be the status or description applicable to him at the time of his death. 25. Certificate of citizenship in case of doubt.- The Secretary of State may in such cases as he thinks fit, on the application of any person with respect to whose citizenship of the United Kingdom and Colonies a doubt exists. Whether on a question of fact or of law, certify that person is a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies; and a certificate issued under this section shall, unless it is proved that it was obtained by means of fraud, false representation or concealment of any material fact, be conclusive evidence that person was such a citizen on the date thereof, but without prejudice to any evidence that he was such a citizen at an earlier date. 26. Discretion of Secretary of State, Governor or High Commissioner.- The Secretary of State, the Governor or the High Commissioner, as the case may be, shall not be required to assign any reason for the grant or refusal of any application under this Act the decision on which is at his discretion; and the decision of the Secretary of State, Governor or High Commissioner on any such application shall not be subject to appeal to or review in any Court. 27. Evidence.- (1) Every document purporting to be a notice, certificate, order or declaration, or an entry in a register, or a subscription of an oath of allegiance, given, granted or made under this Act, the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Acts, 1914 to 1943, or any Act repealed by those Acts, shall be received in evidence, and shall, unless the contrary is proved, be deemed to. have been given, granted or made by or on behalf of the person by whom or on whose behalf it purports to have been given, granted or made. (2) Prima facie evidence of any such document as aforesaid may be given by production of a document purporting to be certified as a true copy thereof by such person and in such manner as may be prescribed. (3) Any entry in a register made under this Act, the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Acts, 1914 to 1943, or any Act repealed by those Acts, shall be received as evidence of the matters stated in the entry. (4) For the purposes of this Act, a certificate given by or on behalf of the Secretary of State that a person was at any time in Crown service under His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom shall be conclusive evidence of that fact. 28. Offences.- (1) Any person who for the purpose of procuring anything to be done or not to be done under this Act makes any statement which he knows to be false in a material particular, or recklessly makes any statement which is false in a material particular, shall be liable on summary conviction in the United Kingdom to imprisonment for a tern not exceeding three months. (2) Any person who fails to comply with any requirement imposed on him by regulations made under this Act with respect to the delivering up of certificates of naturalisation shall be liable on summary conviction in the United Kingdom to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds. (h) with the consent of the Treasury, for the imposition and recovery of fees in respect of any application made to the Secretary of State under this Act or in respect of any registration, or the making of any declaration, or the grant of any certificate or the taking of any oath of allegiance, authorised to be made, granted or taken by or under this Act, and in respect of supplying a certified or other copy of any notice, certificate, order, declaration or entry, given, granted or made as aforesaid; and for the application of any such fees. (2) His Majesty may by Order in Council provide for the application with such adaptations and modifications as may be necessary, to births and deaths registered in accordance with regulations made under paragraphs (f) and (g) of the last foregoing sub-section, or registered at a consulate of His Majesty in accordance with regulations made under the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act, 1914 to 1943, or in accordance with instructions of the Secretary of State, of the Births and Deaths Registration Acts, 1836 to 1947, the Registration of Births. Deaths and Marriage (Scotland) Act, 1854 to 1938 or any Act (including any Act. whether passed before or after the commencement of this Act, of the Parliament of Northern Ireland) for the time being in force in Northern Ireland relating to the registration of births and deaths; and any such Order in Council may exclude, in relation to births and deaths so registered, any of the provisions of section twenty-seven of this Act. (3) The Secretary of State or, as the case may be, the Governor of any Colony protectorate or United Kingdom trust territory may make rules for the practice and procedure to be followed in connection with references under this Act to a committee of inquiry; and such rules may, in particular, provide for conferring on any such committee any powers, rights or privileges of any Court, and for enabling any powers so conferred to be exercised by one or more members of the committee. (4) Any power of the Secretary of State to make regulations or rules under this Act shall be exercised by statutory instrument. (5) Any Order in Council made under this Act may be revoked or varied by a subsequent Order in Council. 30. Protectorates and protected States.- (1) His Majesty may, in relation to the States and territories under His protection through His Government in the United Kingdom, by Order in Council declare which of those States and territories are protectorates and which of them are protected States for the purposes of this Act. (2) His Majesty may, by Order in Council, apply the provisions of this Act to the New Hebrides and to Canton Island as if they were protected States. (3) His Majesty may, by Order in Council, direct that in this Act any reference specified in the Order to protectorates shall be construed as including a reference to such protected States as may be so specified, and that in relation to any protected State so specified any reference in this Act to the Governor shall he construed as including a reference to such person as may be specified in the Order. 31. Assimilation of status of natural-born and other British subjects under existing enactments.- For the purpose of assimilating the rights and liabilities of natural-born and other British subjects under the enactments specified in Part I of the Fourth Schedule to this Act, those enactments are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that part. "Protected State" and "protectorate" have the meaning assigned to them by section 30 of this Act. "United Kingdom mandated territory" and "United Kingdom trust territory" means respectively a mandated territory and a trust territory administered by His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom. (2) Subject to the provisions of section 23 of this Act, any reference in this Act to a child shall be construed as a reference to a legitimate child; and the expressions "father", "ancestor" and "descended" shall be construed accordingly. (3) Reference in this Act to any country mentioned in sub-section (3) of section 1 of this Act shall include references to the dependencies of that country. (4) Any reference in this Act to India, being a reference to a state of affairs existing before the 15th day of August, nineteen hundred and forty-seven, shall be construed as a reference to British India as defined by section three hundred and eleven of the Government of India Act, 1935. (5) For the purposes of this Act a person born aboard a registered ship or air-craft, or aboard an unregistered ship or aircraft of the Government of any country, shall he deemed to have been born in the place in which the ship or aircraft was registered or, as the case may be, in that country. (6) For the purposes of this Act, any person who, by the law in force immediately before the commencement of this Act in any colony or protectorate, enjoyed the privileges of naturalisation within that colony or protectorate only shall be deemed to have become immediately before the commencement of this Act a British subject and a person naturalised in the United Kingdom and Colonies. and a woman shall, in addition, be deemed for the purposes of this Act to be at the commencement of this Act potentially a citizen of any country mentioned in sub-section (3) of section 1 of this Act if any person to whom she has been married is, or would but for his death have been, potentially a citizen thereof at that date. (8) In this Act the expression "citizenship law" in relation to any country mentioned in sub-section (3) of section 1 of this Act means an enactment of the Legislature of that country declared by order of the Secretary of State made by statutory instrument at the request of the Government of that country to be an enactment making provision for citizenship thereof; and a citizenship law shall be deemed for the purposes of this Act to have taken effect in a country on the date which the Secretary of State by order so made at the request of the Government of that country declares to be the date on which it took effect. (9) A person shall for the purposes of this Act be of full age if he has attained the age of twenty-one years and of full capacity if he is not of unsound mind. (10) For the purposes of this Act, a person shall be deemed not to have attained the given age until the commencement of the relevant anniversary of the day of his birth. (11) Any reference in this Act to any other Act shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be construed as a reference to that Act as amended by or under any other enactment. 33. Channel Islands and Isle of Man.- (1) References in this Act to colonies shall be construed as including references to the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man; and in its application to those Islands this Act shall have effect as if references to the Governor included references to the Lieutenant-Governor. (2) A citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies may, if on the ground of his connection with the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man he so desires, be known as a citizen of the United Kingdom, Islands Colonies. 34. Short title, commencement and repeal.- (1) This Act may be cited as THE BRITISH NATIONALITY ACT, 1948. (2) This Act shall come into force on the first day of January. ninteen hundred anr. forty nine. Provided that the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Acts, 1914 to 1943, so far as they extend to Newfoundland and Sourthern Rhodesia, shall continue in force in each of those countries until provision to the contrary is made by the Legislature thereof. 1. A.B. swear by Almighty God that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to His Majesty King George the Sixth His Heirs and Successors according to law. (ii) to enter into or continue in Crown service under His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, or under the Government of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, or service under an international organisation of which His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom is a member, or service in the employment of a society, company or body of persons established in the United Kingdom or established in any colony, protectorate or United Kingdom trust territory. (d) allow periods of residence or service earlier than eight years before the date of the application to be reckoned in computing the aggregate mentioned in the said sub-paragraph (b). (b) that he is in Crown service under His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, and the qualifications specified in sub-paragraphs (c), (d) and (e) of paragraph 1 of this Schedule. Application to colonies, protectorates and trust territories. (c) for the reference therein to the English language there were substituted in the case of a British protected person, a reference to the English language or any other language in current use in that colony, protectorate or territory, and, in the case of an alien, a reference to the English language or any language recognised in that colony. protectorate or territory as being on an equality with the English language. (c) so long as a woman remains a British subject without citizenship as aforesaid she shall not on marriage to an alien cease to be a British subject. 2. So long as a person remains a British subject without citizenship by virtue of section thirteen of this Act he shall be treated for the purposes of any application made by him for registration as a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies under sections six to nine of this Act as if he were a citizen of one of the countries mentioned in sub-section (3) of section one of this Act. 3. If while a male person remains a British subject without citizenship by virtue of section thirteen of this Act a child is born to him, the child shall unless the child has previously become a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies, or of any country mentioned in sub-section (3) of section one of this Act or of Eire, become a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies if and when the father becomes, or would but for his death have become, such a citizen; and a male person who becomes a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by virtue of this paragraph shall be deemed for the purposes of the proviso to sub-section (1) of section five of this Act to be a citizen thereof by descent only.
The shop where you'll find everything for your pets ! Animo Etc. is a Quebec-based franchise which specialises in products and services for pets. With a very caring and personal approach, we offer a large range of quality food, toys, accessories, clothes and health care products for your pets (cats, dogs, hamsters, ferrets, fish or birds). We also offer Classic and Dog Show grooming services. Many other services are available in our store.
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Q: We use mobile phones to speak to each other when we go off-roading, what can having a CB do for us ? A mobile phone is great for speaking privately to someone, but with CB, if there is a group of you all on the same channel, you can all hear what is said at the same time. It would not usually be practical to phone the vehicles behind just to say something like "mind that side-slope" etc, but with CB, any quick comment, said once, can be heard by everyone. Having this advantage - it is much easier for information to be shared around the whole group, and for those in separate parts of an off-road course to speak to the others around the site. Mobile phone network coverage can be patchy in some sparsely populated areas, and you cannot rely on getting a signal everywhere you go. The social aspect of having comms between vehicles in a group can be what really makes a difference too. The ability to talk to the other people in a group can help to quickly integrate new members into an off-road club, for example, and will promote good humour and enjoyment - especially If you enjoy a bit of banter between you all! Passengers can speak to passengers in other vehicles and a whole lot of fun can be had. CB will increase safety at off-road events, combat boredom on a long journey, is a hoot on events like the London to Brighton Land Rover run, and simply enables you to chat with your friends (and other Land Rover / offroading people) conveniently, for free. Q: How far away can I speak to my friends? The range of a CB is very dependent on what is between you and the person you want to speak to. The kind of aerial used also has quite an effect on performance - for example : with an aerial like the "Springer", which is long, yet very flexible, you might get 4-6 miles in open terrain, reducing to 2-4 miles in wooded areas. Local geography also plays a part - undulating hills & valleys this might reduce the range, although get to the top of a high hill, and you may be able to talk to people 30-40 miles away or more ! Q: Do I need to speak in silly codes and slang? No, almost every off-road CB user will talk in plain English - there's no real need for codes amongst a bunch of friends who know each other anyway. You may still come across a few silly names (handles) and things like "give me a 9" (please repeat) - so we've included some CB slang here. Q: Who else uses CB now? The number of "hobbyist" CB users has been decreasing steadily since the late 1980's, and in some parts of the country there are virtually no "general" users left. This is obviously to our advantage as it means we get clearer channels with less chance of being interrupted or listened to as we go about our activities, either recreational or if using CB to help you in your work. There are still thousands of truck drivers who use CB every day to get traffic reports on the motorways, and to get directions in unfamiliar towns (usually on channel 19 on the UK band). The ability to get accurate traffic reports is very handy if you do a lot of road driving. Often the person who will give you a traffic report is going the other way on the opposite carriageway, so has just driven past where you will be driving, so the information is only a few minutes old ! Freak weather conditions sometimes means that during the summer months you might hear signals from Europe and beyond, although this is unlikely to cause too much interference to you and your friends as you will probably be receiving each other at reasonably high signal levels. Q: How easy is CB to install? It can be very easy - we guide you through the process on our Advice Pages and this should tell you all you need to know to be able to install a CB set-up yourself. If you find yourself having problems when installing - just give us a call for advice. Q : Won't I break any aerial mounted on the roof when I go through trees ? Most of the aerials we feature on this site are fairly tough, although some are better than others. If you want a big "whippy" aerial, then the Springer is a good bet. This aerial has a large spring coil at the bottom, and a very flexible whip, allowing it to bend around all over the place, even down to almost horizontal if necessary. There are a number of smaller (approx 3') aerials, again often with shock absorbing springs to avoid flexing the roof, and to enable them to bend when encountering branches. One of our most popular aerials is a 15" long rubber aerial that we import from America. The first couple of inches are rigid so we supply a small shock absorbing spring to protect the bottom of the aerial and to encourage the shedding of branches, but the rest of the aerial is conductive rubber that is very flexible and almost impossible to break. This is a very good solution where short-range communications are needed - the range of this aerial is less than a larger one, but should still be good for 1-3 miles - plenty for greenlaning and off-road site use. Q: Do I need a CB licence? Not any more ... the UK CB licence was abolished on 8th December 2006 . This also means that you can use the multi-standard CB's legally abroad, even in countries where a cb license is needed by the countries residents - as the CB's "owner" is a UK citizen and there is no UK cb license anymore, the license restrictions are relaxed for those travelling in those countries. Q: Can I use a hand held CB? Having a hand-held CB in addition to a vehicle-mount unit can be very useful for when someone gets out and still needs communication back to the vehicle or for winching / recovery and checkpoint operations. However, the bodywork of a metal vehicle will act as an shield to radio waves, so will reduce the range of a handheld used inside a (hardtop) vehicle to about 50 yards! Luckily, you can use the handheld units with conventional CB aerials mounted on the outside of the vehicle, and like this the actual receive & transmit range will be the same as if you were using a normal CB. You can do this either by plugging the main aerials' lead into the top of the set (via an adaptor), or by using a battery eliminator, which will give you a cigar plug connection for power, and an external antenna socket, all in one slide-on piece. A battery eliminator is supplied with the Midland 42, and one is available separately for the Maycom AH27. We also supply various earphones & headsets and small microphones with speakers in them that can clip to your clothing, along with various other items to make the operation of a hand-held in the vehicle a bit easier or for hands-free use. However, you will probably find that using a hand-held in a vehicle will never be as convenient to use on the move as a vehicle-fitted CB. Q: Can I use CB for base-to-vehicle communications for my business? Using a large "base" CB aerial can give you ranges of upto 10-15 miles, ideal for many uses. Many farms use CB for base-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-vehicle communication out in the fields and surrounding areas - increasing safety and combating boredom. allowing colleagues to talk to each other. Landscape & gardening contractors, taxi firms and any company that operates a local delivery service or has personnel out in the local area can all benefit from having easy communication without call charges. The decreasing number of "hobby" CB users mean that there is now little chance of interruption from other people on the bands, although as a public service, CB will never be "private". We produce a free "Farm CB" guide intended as a supplement to our catalogue (we have reproduced it on this site, see Advice pages, under "Farm CB") which deals with the more serious and practical benefits of CB and shows how to install a base station and kit out a fleet of machines. This is worthwhile reading for anyone considering base-to-mobile or mobile-to-mobile communications of this type - not just farmers. We supply all the aerials, fittings & accessories you might need.
About WINTIX (GLOW, TH): GLOW resident Wintix completes the billing as long-running club resident with his deep infectiously irresistible beats and assured sense of quality have made him a firm local favorite for over a decade. Influenced by all kinds of musical genres he creates a unique style and dance floor sound with a mix of rooted in techno music. Throughout his career he had been playing alongside world-class artists such as Sasha, Kolombo and more. Wintix remains consistent and as relevant as ever with his eclectic mixture of Deep, Techno & Progressive sound as he continues to make waves in the scene. About VICTORIA (S.L.I.D, TH): Victoria has a unique of a passions, As a professional scientist by day and a DJ by night. Her work in the Lab and in the night club recently gave way to her true passion in music. Her signature is Deep Techno Progressive. Which is quickly bringing her to the forefront of Bangkok's thriving nightlife scene. For the time being her energetic live mixes consist primarily of her signature. Victoria draws inspiration from numerous eclectic sources including some of her favorites in Nina Kraviz, John Digweed, Boris Brejcha, DJ KiNK, Ricardo Villalobos, and Fizheuer Zieheuer. She have been a catalyst for her love of music personally and professionally, and has seen her share the stage with many top local and international DJs.
Did you know that Terberg's electric truck can be powered by a battery or a hydrogen cell? Dutch truck manufacturer Terberg has presented its new generation of electric vehicles for special services. Among them is the YT203-EV tractor unit, which replaces the previous YT202-EV, and which, in addition to an electric traction system, could in the future implement a hydrogen fuel cell. Lexus does not rule out launching a hydrogen car viernes, 28 febrero 2020 Lexus is studying and analyzing the feasibility of developing a vehicle powered by a hydrogen fuel cell system. This has been confirmed by the head of the premium brand. Lexus sees hydrogen as one of the future solutions for sustainable mobility. Russia gets new breakthrough in hydrogen engines miércoles, 26 febrero 2020 Scientists from the Federal Baltic University Immanuel Kant – Russia, found an effective way to obtain hydrogen engine fuel by using molybdenum sulfide. «Molybdenum sulfide as a material for catalysts, in the first place, is more effective than molybdenum and, secondly, much cheaper, since the total amount of expensive metal in the catalysts is reduced, and sulfur is not scarce and very cheap. « 3 false myths about hydrogen cars martes, 25 febrero 2020 We talk about hydrogen vehicles, cars that run on an electric motor, but in this case the battery that moves the engine is not charged with electricity but with hydrogen. Their footprint in the environment is almost invisible since they only emit water vapor, their refueling does not last more than five minutes and their autonomy is greater, since it does not feed from a battery. Defense launches the development of a fuel cell for the SIP AIP lunes, 24 febrero 2020 The Ministry of Defense has launched a program for the development of a new Fuel Cell System (SPC) for the Independent Air Propulsion (AIP) system of the S80 submarine. The S80 will feature a new AIP equipped with a bioethanol reformer, which generates hydrogen, in which the Spanish industry works, and a fuel cell. The innovative system that reduces NOx emissions with hydrogen Grupo Mecacontrol, together with CSIC and INSIA (Polytechnic University of Madrid), has presented an innovative system for the reduction of NOx emissions in diesel engines that uses hydrogen as a reducing agent in a temperature range between 150ºC and 200ºC. The CONOR project, funded by CDTi (Center for Technological and Industrial Development), has aroused interest in major brands in the automotive sector.
NRC update process a collective effort: Assam Chief Minister by KALPAJYOTI SAIKIA GUWAHATI , July 30, 2018 2:52 pm Photo: Northeast Now Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal said the process of updating the National Register of Citizens (NRC) was a collective effort of everyone. Addressing media persons at the conference hall of Brahmaputra State Guest House in Kharghuli of Guwahati on Monday afternoon, the Chief Minister reiterated that it's just a draft and there is no need to panic if someone does not find his/her name in the draft NRC. Also read: Assam: AASU, ULFA-I welcome publication of final draft of NRC There is ample time to address the claims and objections, the Chief Minister had assured. Sonowal while allaying fears of any untoward incident said this government is committed to ensuring peace and brotherhood in the State. "We have also requested the various political parties to cooperate in the process," Sonowal said. "The people of Assam helped us a lot in order to complete the process in a peaceful way. We took the work forward under the order of the Supreme Court. The process was transparent and unbiased," the Chief Minister further said. "The first draft published on December 31 last year was an example that all the communities in the State worked together for the cause in a peaceful manner and I believe the future work will also be the same," Sonowal added. He added that the government will ensure that no miscreant or unscrupulous circles breach the peace in the State at any cost. Sonowal also said that every community participated in the process of updating the NRC in a very democratic manner. He further warned that any wrong news or misinformation regarding the NRC will be checked and urged the people not to fall prey to such news and rumours. Watch the video here –
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Classical music's hype machine is shouting too loudly That new YouTube video* of royal wedding and BBC Young Musician cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason promoting designer Paul Smith's menswear represents an important step forward in classical music's search for the elusive new, young and hip audience. A well-reasoned case for classical musicians to form this kind of partnership with high profile consumer brands is made by a Slipped Disc reader: Halls are less full, record sales are dropping, orchestras are shutting down, even teaching jobs are getting thin on the ground as fewer kids want the discipline of learning an instrument with which to play classical music. So when a hip young cellist is deemed recognisable and admired enough to be worth paying to promote a brand, it is something to be celebrated, not lamented. If the kids think Sheku is "cool," they may take a look — and listen — to what he does. If that's what it to start rebuilding audiences, go for it. In the meantime, it gives him an income above and beyond what he can earn in concerts or from record sales — which may keep him in the business. Many years ago I was marketing manager of EMI's international classical division. Despite much water passing under the bridge since those halcyon days, a small part of the marketing mindset remains with me. This mindset is convinced by the case made by that Slipped Disc reader. Moreover my blog was one of the earliest and strongest advocates of giving musicians of colour their rightful place in the classical pantheon. And a not insignificant part of my disposable income is still spent on cultural activities, especially music. So why have I never bought a Sheku Kanneh-Mason album, yet alone attended one of his concerts? Moreover, why have I have not bought a Simon Rattle album for decades? Why is it that I hastily click past the latest mention of Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla and Mahan Esfahani ? Coming to that, why is it a long time since I attended a mainstream Western classical concert or bought an album by one of the 'trending' musicians who appear on Slipped Disc and elsewhere with monotonous regularity? The reason for my abstemious behaviour is that the classical hype machine is now shouting so loudly I can no longer hear the music. On An Overgrown Path always has been a personal blog, and the views expressed here are never influenced by the patronage of any major label. And sorry, but I do not share the values of fashion brands and social networks, and, increasingly, I feel alienated from those who do. Which is why that video and other high profile promotional activities by the undoubtedly hugely talented Sheku Kanneh-Mason's leave me shaken but not stirred. It also explains why I have not attended a mainstream classical concert for a long time, but why listening to Arnold Bax's Third Symphony (Handley/BBC Philharmonic) on my iPod while travelling by bus across the mountainous backbone of Crete recently left me deeply moved. It also explains why the last recorded classical music that I bought was by musicians almost entirely absent from the social media hype machine - the Diogene Quartet's complete Schubert string quartets on Brilliant Classics and Afierossis, Michael Heupel's recital of 20th and 21st cello works. (Despite the social media dogma, Sheku Kanneh-Mason is not the only brilliant young cellist in town.) So my head tells me that Sheku Kanneh-Mason promoting Paul Smith menswear is a positive and inevitable development. But my heart begs to differ. Which is why I have never bought a Sheku Kanneh-Mason album. And it is why these days I feel like a spectator standing on a deserted platform as the classical music express pulls out of the station packed with new, young and hip passengers enthusiastically sharing the moment on social media. * YouTube videos are no longer embedded in An Overgrown Path. Photos 2 and 3 from Paul Smith website. This is because the blog's RSS feed strips embedded videos out. My social media accounts are deleted. But new Overgrown Path posts are available via RSS/email by entering your email address in the right-hand sidebar. Any copyrighted material is included for critical analysis, and will be removed at the request of copyright owner(s). Posted by Pliable at Thursday, October 25, 2018 Labels: arnold bax, Diogene Quartet, emi, Mahan Esfahani, Michael heupel, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Paul Smith, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, simon rattle, youtube mathias broucek said... I struggle with these very in-your-face interactions between classical artists and the commercial world. Instinctively, it fears like it must cheapen the nature of the artistic enterprise. Apparently Currentzis (whose Rite recording is an extraordinary thing) has launched his own perfume. He went down in my estimation, I'm afraid. Perhaps that's unfair, but it's hard to imagine Erich Kleiber, Klemperer or Schnabel doing something similar. BTW I've just remembered a video clip of a young woman telling an elderly Horowitz she liked his tie. He was horrified: " What about my playing?????"
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WingedHearts.org Wild Birds Families - More love than you thought possible Not just a Bird Winged Tips Birds I View Feathery Tales Sticky Beak Blogs > Gitie's blog > Breaking Through The Communication Barrier With Birds Submitted by Gitie on 16 November, 2010 - 17:40 by Francesca Doria (British Columbia) In spite of all our New Year's wishes, 2008 hadn't begun well for my sister and I. Our Mum was bone-marrow transplanted and had been through a hard time, and our cat Émile, that had shared half of our lives with his endless care and reassuring love, was about to die of kidney failure. He had held out to help our mother and the two of us, but now he was wearing out, silently fading away. At the time our mother's house had been restored, my sister and I had lived in until the inner works had started, so we had to move to our own flat where our mum already dwelt. While I was staying with our mother and Émile, my sister Paola got back to the big house to tidy up and put in order everything. She immediately called me, informing that there was a jay she was feeding every day on my window sill and a pair of magpies building their nest on the top of our secular magnolia tree. At first I was thrilled: I had always loved those elegant, intelligent, funny and noisy birds, and that news had surpassed my wish. But being in anxious state of mind, I nearly forgot both magpies and the friendly jay, until I came back home along with our mum, Émile and our other four cats. The magpies were still at work: the male brought branches and other items, the female observed/examined them carefully, tried them out, sometimes discharged them, and he flew back and forth trying to find the best things to fit. The jay was still coming, curiously watching the new incomers. There also was a couple of large hooded crows, that were the undisputed owners of that territory, from a bird's point of view. We came back home on 4th March 2008: Émile made a huge effort to visit once again all the rooms of the house; although many things had changed dramatically (my sister's room had a different entrance, one of the bathrooms had been rebuilt and much more) he recognized his house, blessed it and stood with us quietly and warmly as he had always done. On 16th March he was put to sleep: until that day the sky had been beautifully crystalline and blue, the sun had shone bright, the moon at night was big and white in a starry sky, the sea was stunningly navy blue and glittering with sun sparkling, there were breathtaking sunsets. But that day the sky grew dark, and heavy drops of rain began to fall. They got heavier and heavier, like a machine gun; although I was dazed with grief, I couldn't help thinking of the poor birds outside, especially the pair of magpies, whose nest was under that torrential rain. The female sat on her eggs and never moved; the male brought her food. I was used to hang balls of fat and seeds, nuts, peanuts, pour sunflower mix and much more for the birds visiting our garden (normally tits, robins, sparrows, finches, collar doves and more), but now we had new, hungry visitors: the crow pair, the jay (which loved our cereal biscuits) and a father who had to provide vital sources of nourishment for his partner and, as a consequence, his children on arrival. He would fly under my sister's windows and hung holding onto the small bags and balls. One day I looked straight into his black eye: he looked into mine, for a long time, going on picking up plenty of food for his lady. They say that, when you look into a corvid's eye, you'll never forget: there's a whole world in, like looking in a cat's eyes, and it's as deep but different. They both have magic in, and I am sure that they are psychic animals. The rain never stopped for a whole month: we had started to get worried for the chicks in the nest, besides the parents who were forced to stand such a terrible weather. Finally the sun shone again, and spring burst. The magpies had succeeded! We could see them feeding the chicks in the nest. We also realized that the father had a preference for our cereal biscuits too, so I used to put some in an ice-cream plastic container with a handle. One night I forgot to put the biscuits in. At 4.00 in the morning my sister was woken up by a strange noise. She got up to look: in front of her there was the magpie, holding the container in his bill, dragging it backward and forwards like a prisoner asking for breakfast! My sister got closer and, being half-asleep, she forgot the mosquito net and knocked/banged against it! The magpie started to laugh, so my sister told me: he chattered, chak chak chak! He was laughing at me! She said. As soon as the mother could leave the chicks a bit alone, she joined her partner in finding out funny plays and performances. A neighbour had hung a dreamcatcher with many noisy knick-knacks on it: what a wonderful play for the couple, at 5am! They pulled it each towards a different direction, and you could hear the noise going on, and the excited magpies chattering loud. When I was about to sleep, they arrived on my window sill and suddenly uttered a super noisy CHAK! Then stopped to listen to my (rather ill-disposed, considering the time) reaction. All neighbours started complaining about the noise of the magpies, and their habit of dropping empty peanuts skins everywhere (which made me laugh, because they had always complained about anything, from leaves on the ground to the cats. That was the magpie revenge!). I realized it was the first time I had laughed after Émile's departure. I loved their chattering voices, their sudden teasing, their deep interest in anything we did. They were very polite magpies: when I put some shining stones and crystals for them on the balustrade of the balcony it took two weeks before they decided they might take them away. In turn, one day I found a rose. It was in the magpie's eating place: I asked Paola why she had cut a rose, and she answered she didn't at all. To a better look, the rose hadn't been cut, it had been torn away by a bill. Who could ever be a better partner than a magpie, I thought? Faithful, caring, grateful… even romantic! The fact is that corvids have a sense of beauty, and I'm convinced that magpies are the greatest aesthetes! But danger lied in ambush. The hooded crows couldn't tolerate having rivals in their territory, especially considering that it was spring, so they suddenly started attacking the nest. I watched the attack of the male crow (I found out much later how good-natured the female was): a large, beautiful, dark menace swooped down on the nest. While the mother was trying to protect the chicks, the father bravely attacked the crow: it was a breathtaking scene, because the magpie was definitely smaller (I had the impression that they were a young pair), and the crow was older, bigger, stronger and very determined. The fight went on for a while, a chick fell down and smashed on the ground. Finally, the magpie female joined her partner and together they managed to defeat the crow. Every day the crow attacked, and everyday magpies fought for their "children": in the end the crow gave up, having to gather strength to feed his own chick (they also came to pick up peanuts and all the rest). That was the only crow chick I had seen from that pair: they were likely older. But the crow one is another story. The jay in all that mess had run away and hid. The cats watched amused or alerted. It was a brand new experience for them all, both our "inner" ragdoll cats and the "outer" ones (moggies, rescued stray cats). At night I felt grief getting sharper in the darkness, being alone with my feelings, but could always count on the other cats care and on the magpies funny company. They slept, but I was glad to know that they were a few meters away, in peace with their offspring. Watching through the telescope, I could see the chicks moving in the nest. I was eagerly waiting to be a witness at their first flight! Then a chick fell. I don't honestly know if it fell or it was pushed, but it did, among our stray cats… I ran down the stairs like hell, while the magpies chattered so loud you could hear them miles away: while pulling the brand new glass door I did it so violently as to bang it against my big toe and broke it. The sharp pain made me realize I was alive, contrary to the feeling I had inside! After a few minutes I managed to stand and hopped after the chick, which, of course, had disappeared. "Topolina got it!" I thought. Our moggies aren't big hunters at all, but of rats, for they have a big belly (being all neutered and spayed), but there was this small, tabby she-cat that was the biggest hunter of all: she never missed anything. I was looking around, when Ruggi, son to Topolina, brought me the chick! It was perfectly fine, but for a terrible fright and the shock of the fall. Its parents were chattering so loud as to make me want to put earplugs! The chick wasn't as beautiful as its parents at all: it was bare but for some feathers on its wings and body and a tail butt, rather stinky and flabby like a hot water bottle. Ruggi was proud of the gift he had brought to me! I don't think it was the cat's meaning of gratify you with a prowl, a gift that's more a female habit: he just heard the birds cry and ran to rescue, and looked very happy of his mission. He also rescued adult and juvenile blackbirds and sparrows. Honestly, I never saw him running after rats as his relatives did – his mother was a great rat fighter, spending a long time in fascinating moves against rats that were even bigger than her – a quite tiny cat – like mongooses against snakes, and in the end she never failed chocking them. The pair of magpies had realized that their child was in my hands, so they stopped shouting and kept silent, observing me carefully. 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Q: Is it the magnetic or electric components of light that get polarized? Since polarization filters light in all directions except one, the electric or magnetic field should be filtered, right? A: Electromagnetic waves can be thought of as coupled oscillations of electric and magnetic fields, which oscillate perpendicularly, related by Maxwell equations, so that we can actually find the polarization of, say, the magnetic field from the polarization of the electric field. We usually only bother to specify one of them, and, by convention, we mean by "polarization" of an EM wave, that of the electric field.
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We have been patiently waiting for results to come in from various tests we have had done. Today started out by me leaving messages for the immunologist, ENT, and infectious disease doctors. I also called my insurance company to see if they had approved the testing the oncologist wanted done. -Insurance phone call #1: There was no approval yet, and the rep could not give me more information with out the specific CPT codes. So this added calling the oncologist on to my list. -Infectious disease doctor call: His phone call ruled out everything he tested for. Every infectious disease and disorder he tested for came back negative. He encouraged me to continue ruling things out and working with the team we have in place, and wants to see her next week for a follow up. -ENT call: The ultrasound results came in today, and show the same 5 masses, which are growing lymph nodes. They appear to be similar to what the one was last year, but they are larger and more worrisome to both the pediatric radiologist and ENT. She also asked to be updated on who we have seen and where we were at with other tests, and she also encouraged me to keep doing what I am doing and to keep her informed of any developments. -Insurance call #2: I gave the rep all of the codes and explained to her why we needed these tests approved. As she tried to look in to approving them, she informed me that half of the tests that were ordered were specific cancer marker tests, and that in order for them to be approved she needed a diagnostic code. She also asked how quickly the doctor wanted these tests done. I told her briefly of Phoebe's history and what she is going through and said "As her mother, there is a huge urgency to this and these tests need to be done now." She agreed. She asked if she could place me on hold while she looked through all of Phoebe's history to locate the diagnostic code. I told her that while she did that I would call the oncologist and get the diagnostic code from them for her. By the time she took me off of hold, I was still waiting for the oncologist to call me back with diagnostic code. This sweet woman told me that from looking through Phoebe's history her heart was breaking and she couldn't imagine if that was her kid going through all of this. She said she actually cried going through all of the tests, procedures and surgeries Phoebe has had. She said if she was me, she would get the test done and then fight with insurance later. I told her that is exactly what was going to happen if this wasn't approved today. She went to check another place for the code, encouraging me to keep fighting for my baby girl, when the oncologist called me back and gave me the code she needed. The rep put through a dummy claim with all six test codes and the diagnostic code and they went through and were approved! I don't know if the whole cost is covered but at least the insurance is going to pay for some of it! She gave me the reference number and her extension and wished us good luck and hopes this will bring us the answers that we need! So tomorrow first thing when the office opens, I have to call the oncologist to have them give me a time to bring her in to draw more blood (Mayo wants the draw done within 24 hours of starting the test) and start this testing process! Hopefully we are one step closer to an answer! Today was a very busy day for Phoebe. We had two doctors appointments. First was the oncologist. He went over the immunologists results, the type of tests the ID doctor ordered (since we don't have results yet) and reexamined her. He informed me that the syndrome they want to test for is so rare that it requires prior approval from the insurance company before you can do the blood work. Together we chose the option of drawing the blood today, that way if and when we get insurance approval they already have the samples to do the testing. He didn't want to get the approval first and make us come back up to the hospital to have her blood drawn. Because we don't have the ultrasound report, and it was done in the hospital, he went down to the department and had a radiologist show him the pictures that they took. He wants to see what the pediatric radiologist has to say so he can compare the two reports side by side. He again asked that I have the surgeon call him so they could conference about how best to handle her case moving forward. He also took blood to run another CBC, and said he would like to see her back in May so he can check to see how her neck is and because he is sure we will have all the results we are waiting for by then. While we were leaving his office he was already on the phone working on getting the insurance to approve this special blood test. He seemed pretty confident that we would get the approval since this is now a reoccurring issue and we have such a full detailed family history of all the health issues that go back a few generations. The surgeon also went over the immunologists results, the types of tests the ID doctor ordered and reexamined her. He agreed that the best thing to do right now is to wait to get all of the results from all the tests we are waiting on before we make a date to do a surgery. He also wants to see her in May after we see the oncologist again, and told me he is available the first and last weeks so when I call to make my appointment I know what days to ask for. To make both these appointments I have to wait til next week, when the Valerie Fund has the doctors schedules of who will be in house when. Phoebe was happy at this appointment that she didn't have to give blood, but this was also the first appointment where she flinched when the doctor examined her neck. She is starting to feel more comfortable telling them what hurts and when. When we were leaving this appointment, the surgeon was already calling the oncologist to conference. Both doctors also made a point to take some time to talk to me because they both noticed that I am not appearing to be frantic, over emotional and highly concerned. I explained to them that this is killing me inside, that I am so concerned for my daughters health and well being I could bust and I just want to know what is going on with my daughter. But I also explained to them that it does Phoebe no good for me to be in their offices freaking out hysterically, because I could forget to tell them something, or misunderstand what they are saying to me, or just not hear them at all. I told both of them that my getting hysterical and acting like a frantic fool does not do my daughter any favors. I can't change what is happening, and my acting like that doesn't make all of this go away. I am my daughter's best advocate and voice, and to be that I have to be at the top of my game. It was very humbling to hear both of these men commend me for the way I have been handling myself and this situation. So, the waiting game continues. I am going to call the ID doctor tomorrow afternoon to see if we have any results back. At least she gets a break from doctors for the rest of this week, and hopefully next week as well. We spent an hour with the ID doctor today. He was very thorough, and read every single report I brought with us. Once again, upon physically examining her, this doctor became highly concerned with her neck. He said that our best option for getting an answer, which no one is excited about, is to biopsy what is in her neck. In the meantime he ordered a whole bunch of lab tests to rule out some more autoimmune diseases and infectious diseases. We should have those results in a few days. He also said that how he sees our worse case scenario is that every test comes back negative, and the biopsy shows what it did last time, which leaves us back at square one of not knowing why this keeps happening to Phoebe. In the meantime, he says to keep following each lead we get, cause if for nothing else it is ruling stuff out. We got out of his office about 3:05 and rushed to Quest for the lab tests (we were in Mountainside and had to go to Bound Brook) Thank God for Nicole who was close by to Quest and went there to sign Phoebe in and wait for us to get there to ensure that she was seen today. (Quest closes at 3:30) The door was locked, but because Nicole was there and spoke to the phlebotomist we were let in the door at 3:29!! Hopefully by Thursday afternoon we will have the results. The immunologists blood results fully came back and we were definitely able to rule out some autoimmune diseases. They also pointed us in a new direction, at a rare condition. She has two specific lymphocytes that are elevated. He consulted with her oncologist and they both agree we should do a specialized test to see if this rare condition is what is causing everything to happen. They say a lot of what is going on with her lines up with this condition. This brings us to tomorrow. We see the oncologist for the specialized test at 10:30 am, and then we have another consult with the surgeon at 1. I was hoping to have all the results by the time we had to see the surgeon (which was originally supposed to be Friday) but I can at least bring him the names of the tests we are doing/waiting for results on. The ultrasound went well. They were quite amazed at how still she sat and how easy it was to do on a three year old. The tech took the first set of images and wanted to bring a senior radiologist in so he could have a look first hand. He took a lot of medical history and spent a good amount of time taking the images. He said he wants the pediatric radiologist to make the final report, but she was not in today, and might be out all week. He feels that since she specializes in pediatrics we will get the most accurate assessment and since this is the second occurrence in such a short time span and with how young Phoebe is, he doesn't want to leave it in anyone else's hands other than this specific radiologist. So hopefully it will be the beginning of next week that we get these results. Our doctors for this week are all jammed into the next three days. -Today we have an ultrasound of her neck. -Tuesday we have an appointment with an ID doctor to rule things out. -Wednesday we have an appointment with her oncologist in the morning for more specialized blood work and an appointment with her surgeon in the afternoon.
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what's one of the best things about an adoption? look carefully in the scared yet hopeful eyes below, what do you see? dude, what planet are you from, uranus? Love this post and spot on. Have a rescue cat in my case, but he is the absolute BOY and I will always go shelter adoption. this is gonna be a close game, it will be important for charlie & sammy to keep the guys together in order to weather the storm when the cavs go on a run, that's just part of the game...jabari, grant, roger & stephen have all played in big games before & need to provide senior leadership (deep audible breathing is helpful)...the cavs are very tough at home in charlottesville but have not proven themselves yet on the road this season & make no mistake about it, the barricade is gonna be electric tonite for this white out game, are you gonna be in the haas? yeah baby, it's gonna be a white out at an uber amped & fueled up haas pavilion for tonite's epic battle at the barricade, make sure all your ******* weapons fit in one of them clear plastic baggies, ok? let's do this, celebrate your life with a little bit adventure, ok? Will your white shirt have pink sleeves???? Played in the Pebble Beach homeowners' tournament Monday with my boss. We played with a doctor and his son. The son, and his very attractive blond fiance, are in their fourth year at Creighton Medical School, which is located in ---Phoenix, AZ. Weird. But I imagine that helps with enrollment, since choosing between medical school in the Valley of the Sun and in Omaha is pretty much a no-brainer. Nice kid, hit the hell out of the ball. He's aiming to become a dermatologist, which should leave plenty of time for golf. RMB and Domingo will have key roles in this game, IMHO, because we need their length and quickness on defense. This is going to be a classic grind-it-out game between two fundamentally sound teams. Have to make free throws. If we bring the intensity, we can win this game at home. This image makes me think of the uproar over Native American sports mascots. How do African Americans feels about some 1800's white guy from a confederate slave state being their mascot. How do Caucasians feel about having some horseman be their mascot? Golden Bears mascot way better!
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\section{Conclusion} From the human's perspective robot inference is often a black box. Without any feedback, humans have no way of knowing what their robot has inferred or whether it is confused. Accordingly, we developed a multimodal augmented reality and haptic interface that combines \textit{passive} and \textit{active} feedback. We derived a decision rule for mapping robot inference to each type of feedback during shared autonomy tasks. Our user study demonstrates that this passive and active approach takes a step towards bringing the human into the loop during robot inference. \section{Developing Multimodal Interfaces for Communicating Robot Inference} We seek transparent robot learners that involve humans in the teaching process. Our hypothesis is that we can better the human into the learning loop with multimodal feedback --- both in the form of passive visualizations, which display the goals that the robot has inferred, and active prompts, which direct the human towards effective teaching inputs. In this section we develop complementary interfaces for each type of feedback. We particularly focus on the design of a custom haptic wristband for eliciting human teaching. \subsection{Passive Visualization: Augmented Reality} We start by leveraging an existing augmented reality head-mounted display (Microsoft HoloLens) to \textit{overlay} graphics onto the real-world environment. These visualizations can passively convey complex information --- for example, as the human looks at the robot arm, they see high-dimensional trajectories that the robot has learned from their demonstrations. But how should we design these visualizations to intuitively convey what the robot does and does not know? In order to create user-friendly visualizations we take inspiration from successful prototypes in prior work \cite{rosen2019communicating, brooks2020visualization, zolotas2018head}. After implementing these prototypes across short pilot tests --- where humans teleoperated the robot arm to perform simple shared autonomy tasks --- we arrived at a design similar to \texttt{NavPoints} \cite{walker2018communicating}. As shown in \fig{front}, here the robot augments the environment by displaying the position and orientation of end-effector waypoints along its likely trajectories. The position of each waypoint is marked with a \textit{sphere}, while its orientation is denoted by an \textit{arrow}. This visualization design is suitable for shared autonomy tasks where the robot reasons over multiple possible goals. Returning to our motivating example, imagine the robot is unsure whether it should place the cup on the top shelf or the bottom shelf: our design visualizes this uncertainty through two trajectories starting at the robot's end-effector and going to both of the shelves. The starting point of every trajectory is affixed to the robot's end-effector and moves with that robot. When the robot updates its understanding of the human's goal, we now vary the \textit{color} and \textit{transparency} of each trajectory to passively signal what the robot has inferred: our algorithm for mapping inference to this augmented reality visualization is introduced in Section~\ref{sec:method}. \subsection{Active Prompts: Haptic Wristband} To provide haptic feedback we designed and built a low-cost, wireless, and lightweight wristband (see \fig{haptic}). Users wear this device just like a watch. The wristband provides two separate types of active haptic signals: gently \textit{squeezing} the human's wrist and \textit{vibrating} in patterns distributed around the band. Together, these two alerts convey low-dimensional and targeted information. For instance, when the robot needs additional guidance, the device lightly squeezes the human's wrist and prompts the human by vibrating in the direction where user inputs would be most informative. \p{Squeeze Feedback} The haptic wristband generates squeeze forces through a cord and reel system. This system is controlled by a high torque N$20$ DC motor which sits centrally in the main housing of the device (refer to \fig{haptic}). When we actuate the DC motor in one direction, the cord is retracted into the central housing equally from both sides; actuating the motor in the opposite direction releases the cord and relaxes the band. The cord is routed through the components of the haptic device and is never in direct contact with the wearer's skin. To make this device more comfortable, we normally keep the band in a relaxed state, and only squeeze on the human's wrist at short intervals to provide notifications. \p{Vibrotactile Feedback} Localized vibrations are output by six cylindrical ERM motors that are evenly spaced around our flexible 3D printed wristband. Each ERM motor (i.e., each vibrotactor) sits rigidly in a resin-printed housing which transfers vibrations directly onto the wearer's skin. We created a compliant accordion-style wristband so that the band fits varying wrist shapes while isolating vibrations from adjacent vibrotactors. Activating multiple vibrotactors in sequence creates patterns which carry additional information: for example, we can activate the top and bottom vibrotactors to indicate to the human to guide the robot either up or down. \section{Introduction} \begin{figure}[t] \begin{center} \includegraphics[width=0.8\columnwidth]{Figures/front.pdf} \caption{Human teleoperating a $7$-DoF robot arm. (Top) The robot believes it should place the cup on a shelf, and passively visualizes the likely options in augmented reality. (Middle) But the robot is still uncertain about the right shelf. To elicit informative feedback, the robot actively signals the haptic wristband, and prompts the human to guide the robot either up or down. (Bottom) The human responds by moving down. In augmented reality, the robot shows that it has inferred the bottom shelf is the human's goal.} \label{fig:front} \end{center} \vspace{-2.25em} \end{figure} \IEEEPARstart{I}{magine} teaching an assistive robot arm how to put away a coffee cup (see \fig{front}). You want the robot to place this cup upright on the lower shelf --- as the robot moves toward the shelves, you correct its mistakes and guide the robot towards your desired goal. The robot gathers information in real-time from your corrections, updating its understanding of how and where it should carry the coffee cup. But how do \textit{you} know what the robot has \textit{inferred}? Ideally you would like to know when you have taught the robot enough, so that you can step away and do something else. But without feedback you are stuck watching the robot throughout the entire task, unsure whether it fully understands your goal, or what corrections you should provide to remove any remaining confusion! Existing research enables robots to convey their \textit{intent} to nearby humans \cite{hellstrom2018understandable,dragan2013legibility,tellex2014asking,admoni2016predicting,cha2018survey}. These prior works study a spectrum of different modalities, including legible motions, language, gaze, gestures, and displays. Each new modality offers a separate channel for providing intent feedback to the human. But communicating inferred behavior requires more than just intent: the robot learner must indicate what it thinks it should do, display its confidence that this inferred behavior is correct, and even prompt additional human teaching when unsure. As robot learners move from communicating their immediate intent to proactively involving human teachers, we propose that robots synthesize \textit{multiple} modalities to close-the-loop and make it clear what they do and do not know. Selecting the right modalities often depends on the current user and task. But --- whichever modalities we choose --- our central hypothesis is that combining passive and active feedback will better bring the human into the learning loop than systems which only leverage a single feedback type: \begin{center}\vspace{-0.3em} \textit{Robots should \emph{passively} convey what they have inferred, and \emph{actively} prompt the human when teaching is required.} \vspace{-0.3em} \end{center} Specifically, in this paper we integrate augmented reality displays and wearable haptic feedback to develop a multimodal interface that passively communicates learning and actively elicits teaching. We apply our system to shared autonomy settings \cite{jain2019probabilistic, javdani2018shared, dragan2013policy}. Here the robot arm knows a discrete set of possible goals, and infers the desired goal from the human's teleoperation inputs. As shown in \fig{front}, our interface \textit{passively displays} the different ways to complete the task that the robot thinks are likely, and \textit{actively prompts} the human when further teaching is required. We conduct user studies to test how this feedback system affects interactions between human teachers and robot learners. When compared to single modality baselines, we find that the combination of passive and active feedback i) prevents users from continuing to teach the robot after it has already learned what they want, ii) reduces the amount of time users spend monitoring the robot, and iii) improves user teaching so that the robot infers what the human wants from fewer interactions. Overall, our proposed system is a step towards transparent robot learning and accelerated human teaching. We make the following contributions: \p{Combining Multiple Feedback Modalities} Unlike related works that only consider a single modality, we integrate an existing augmented reality head-mounted display with a novel haptic wristband to convey multimodal information and proactive alerts about robot inference to human teachers. \p{Converting Robot Inference to Passive and Active Feedback} Specifically in the context of shared autonomy, we formulate an approach that maps robot inference to intuitive multimodal cues. The resulting algorithm determines when to provide which type of feedback, identifies critical states where additional human teaching is especially important, and prompts the most informative direction of human input. \p{Conducting a User Study} We compare passive and active feedback to single-modality visual, haptic, and augmented reality baselines across an in-person user study. Participants traded-off between teaching the robot arm and performing a distractor task. We find that our approach reduces the amount of time a user must spend focused on the robot learner, and also improves the user's teaching efficiency. \section{Mapping Robot Inference to \\ Passive and Active Feedback} \label{sec:method} So far we have worked on two feedback modalities in parallel: we created visual designs for existing augmented reality displays and developed a complementary haptic wristband. In this section we \textit{combine} these two feedback mechanisms into a single formulation for communicating robot inference within shared autonomy settings. We derive a decision rule for providing each type of feedback --- augmented reality is used for \textit{passive}, information rich visualizations of goals the robot thinks are likely, while the haptic wristband is used to \textit{actively} signal the user and elicit additional teaching. \p{Setting} We start by returning to our example from \fig{front}. Here the human is teleoperating a robot arm, and the robot is inferring the human's goal to autonomously assist the human. Let $s \in \mathcal{S}$ be the robot's state (e.g., end-effector position), let $a \in \mathcal{A}$ be the robot's action (e.g., end-effector velocity), and let transition function $T(s, a)$ capture the robot's dynamics. We consider systems with continuous state and action spaces. The human has in mind a goal $g \in \mathcal{G}$ that they want the robot arm to reach (e.g., \textit{placing the cup on the lower shelf}). Their reward function $R_g(s, a)$ depends upon this chosen goal. The robot seeks to maximize the human's cumulative reward subject to uncertainty over the human's goal\footnote{This is an instance of a partially observable Markov decision process where $g$ is the unknown state and Eq.~(\ref{eq:V2}) is the observation model \cite{javdani2018shared}.}. Consistent with prior work on shared autonomy \cite{jain2019probabilistic, javdani2018shared, dragan2013policy}, we assume that the set of possible goals $\mathcal{G}$ is \textit{discrete} and the robot knows $\mathcal{G}$ \textit{a priori}. In practice, these goals can be anywhere in the robot's workspace: the only constraint is that the robot must know the possible goal locations $\mathcal{G}$ prior to interaction. But while the robot knows the human's candidate goals, it \textit{does not} know the human's goal during the current task. Instead, the robot maintains a belief $b$ over the set of possible goals. This belief is a probability distribution, i.e., $b(g) = 1$ indicates that the robot is completely convinced that $g \in \mathcal{G}$ is the human's current goal. Without any insight from the human the robot would have no way of updating $b$ and inferring the preferred goal. But the robot is not performing this task alone --- both the human and robot share control over the robot's motion. The human applies joystick inputs to teleoperate the robot arm, so that $a_h \in \mathcal{A}$ is the human's commanded action. The robot linearly blends this human input with its own autonomous assistance $a_r \in \mathcal{A}$ to get the overall action \cite{jain2019probabilistic, dragan2013policy}: \begin{equation} \label{eq:SA1} a = (1 - \alpha)\cdot a_h + \alpha \cdot a_r \end{equation} where $\alpha \in [0,1]$ arbitrates control between human and robot. During our user study we select $\alpha = 0.4$ so that the human's actions are given more weight than the robot's assistance. If action $a_h$ results from the human's teleoperation input, how do we obtain $a_r$? The robot selects this autonomous action to assist the human based on what it has inferred so far. Assuming that the robot will fully observe the human's desired goal at the next timestep, the optimal autonomous action at state $s$ given belief $b$ becomes \cite{javdani2018shared}: \begin{equation} \label{eq:SA2} a_r = \text{arg}\max_{a \in \mathcal{A}} ~\sum_{g \in \mathcal{G}} b(g) \cdot Q_g(s, a) \end{equation} Here $Q_g(s, a)$ is the cumulative reward of taking action $a$ in state $s$ and then optimally completing the task to reach goal $g$. We use $Q_g(s, a) = -\\|T(s, a) - g\\|^2$ in our user studies to compute this in closed form and perform inference at $1$ kHz. Intuitively, \eq{SA2} encourages the robot to assist across all \textit{likely} goals. As the robot becomes increasingly confident in a particular goal $g$, it leverages \eq{SA2} to move directly towards that goal. \subsection{Conveying Inference with Passive Visualizations} The robot infers the human's preferred goal by observing their teleoperation commands $a_h$. We propose to utilize augmented reality head-mounted displays to visualize what the robot is inferring. Augmented reality is suitable here because it offers a user-friendly and intuitive way to convey dense, high-dimensional information (e.g., trajectories). \p{Belief Conditioning} Jumping back to our motivating example, imagine that you are trying to teach the robot arm. At the start of the task the robot has a uniform belief $b$ over different ways to place the cup on the shelves. But you do not know this --- perhaps you think you need to teach the robot to move towards the shelves in the first place. To reveal what the robot already knows, here the visualization should show multiple, equally likely trajectories reaching for the shelves. As the robot starts moving to the shelves, you begin to correct its behavior, and the robot updates it's belief to place higher likelihood on your desired goal. Now the visualization should \textit{change}: instead of showing equal trajectories for every goal, the robot should emphasize the trajectories that correspond to your likely goal(s). Put another way, the robot's visualization not only depends on where the robot and goals are located, but it also \textit{depends} on the robot's \textit{belief}. \p{Inference} In order to display the robot's inference we must \textit{map} beliefs to visualizations. Before we do this, however, we first need to determine how the robot infers the human's goal. Here we apply Bayesian inference to extract the human's goal from their action inputs. Assuming that the human's inputs $a_h$ are conditionally independent, we reach: \begin{equation} \label{eq:V1} b^{t+1}(g) = P(g \mid \mathcal{D}) \propto P(a_h^t \mid s^t, g) \cdot b^t(g) \end{equation} where $\mathcal{D} = \{(s^1, a_h^1), \ldots (s^t, a_h^t)\}$ is the set of human inputs and $t$ is the current timestep. Notice that \eq{V1} only depends on human actions and not the autonomous assistance --- this prevents the robot from incorrectly learning from itself through a feedback loop. In practice, to evaluate \eq{V1} we need the likelihood function $P(a_h \mid s, g)$, which models how probable it is that the human will choose action $a_h$ given that their goal is $g$ and the robot is in state $s$. Within shared autonomy, this likelihood function commonly follows the Boltzmann-rational model \cite{dragan2013policy}: \begin{equation} \label{eq:V2} P(a_h \mid s, g) = \frac{e^{\,\beta Q_g(s, a_h)}}{\int e^{\,\beta Q_g(s, a)} ~da} \approx \frac{e^{\,\beta Q_g(s, a_h)}}{e^{\,\beta Q_g(s, a_g)}} \end{equation} On the far right side we use Laplace's method to approximate the denominator, so that $a_g$ is the optimal action to reach goal $g$. The constant $\beta \geq 0$ is a tunable hyperparameter which determines how sensitive the robot is to each human input. When $\beta \rightarrow 0$ the robot treats the human's actions as random, and when $\beta \rightarrow \infty$ the robot models the human as perfectly rational. We used $\beta = 0.1$ for our user study. \p{Visual Mapping} Combining Equations~(\ref{eq:V1}) and (\ref{eq:V2}) we have a way to update the robot's belief. Our final step is to map this changing belief into an augmented reality visualization. Although there are an infinite number of valid possibilities, we draw from prior work to identify a natural mapping that requires minimal user interpretation \cite{walker2018communicating, rosen2019communicating, brooks2020visualization}. Specifically, we map the robot's inferred belief over each goal to the \textit{color} and \textit{transparency} of the corresponding waypoints (see \fig{front}). When the robot is sure that a given $g$ \textit{is not} the human's desired goal, i.e., $b(g) \rightarrow 0$, the trajectory moving to that goal (and the goal itself) are rendered as completely transparent. Conversely, as $b(g) \rightarrow 1$ and the robot becomes more confident that $g$ \textit{is} the human's goal, we linearly interpolate the waypoint color between a dull gray and vibrant orange. This mapping intuitively highlights goals the robot thinks are likely while simultaneously hiding goals that the human does not want. \subsection{Eliciting Teaching with Active Prompts} We hypothesize that our augmented reality feedback will reveal the robot's inference while the human is watching the robot (and can see the visual overlays). But what happens when the human looks away to do something else? So far the feedback has been purely \textit{passive} --- providing information only when the human seeks it out. Next we turn to \textit{active} haptic feedback that purposely alerts the human and guides their teaching, even if they are not concentrating on the robot. Wearable haptics is suitable here because it offers direct, attention grabbing signals without encumbering the human. We break this problem down into two parts: i) determining \textit{when} to provide haptic prompts and ii) selecting \textit{which} haptic prompts will elicit useful human teaching. \begin{figure}[t] \begin{center} \includegraphics[width=2\columnwidth]{Figures/tasks.pdf} \caption{Example robot and human behavior during the \textit{Avoiding} task. The robot is trying to drop a strawberry on the plate, but does not know how to avoid the obstacle. When users receive feedback on the \textbf{GUI} (top row), they are more tentative, and spend extra time watching and correcting the robot. This leads to higher interaction time, lower teaching efficiency, and lower scores on the distractor task. By contrast, humans with \textbf{AR+Haptic} feedback (bottom row) are free to focus on the distractor task. When the robot needs help they get an active haptic notification, and passively observe how the robot learns from their corrections. This multimodal feedback enables the human to efficiently teach the robot without having to constantly monitor its behavior.} \label{fig:task} \end{center} \vspace{-2em} \end{figure} \p{When to Prompt} In our motivating example you are trying to teach the robot to place a coffee cup upright on the lower shelf. At the beginning of the task you notice that the robot is moving towards the shelves --- and since the robot is going in the right direction, you turn away to focus on something else. The robot still needs to figure out whether it should place the cup on the top shelf or the lower shelf; but when is the right time to ask for your feedback? At the start of the task the shelves are far away, and the trajectories to both the top and bottom shelf are very similar. However, as the robot approaches the shelves, the trajectories for the two likely goals diverge, and the robot needs to make a decision (\textit{should I move up or down?}). Intuitively, we want to alert the human at important decision points. Drawing from prior research on critical states \cite{huang2018establishing} and inverse reinforcement learning \cite{ramachandran2007bayesian}, we define these decision points as states $s$ where taking the robot's autonomous action $a_r$ will produce a much worse result than acting optimally: \begin{equation} \label{eq:H1} \mathcal{C}(s) = \sum_{g \in \mathcal{G}} b(g) \cdot \big(Q_g(s, a_g) - Q_g(s, a_r) \big) \end{equation} Here $\mathcal{C}$ is a measure of how critical the state $s$ is, and if $\mathcal{C}$ exceeds some threshold $\sigma$ then the robot is in a \textit{critical state}. Recall that $a_g$ is the optimal action for goal $g$ (e.g., moving in a straight line from $s$ towards $g$). Our choice of \eq{H1} highlights states where multiple likely goals require very different actions, and the robot needs more information in order to select the correct action. \p{Which Prompt to Use} We keep track of \eq{H1} during the task, and use the haptic wristband to alert the human when $C(s) > \sigma$. This prompt brings the human's attention back to the robot --- but what feedback should the human teacher provide when they receive an alert? In our running example, the robot has reached the shelves and is unsure whether the cup belongs on the upper or lower shelf. Here the robot would learn the most from an input $a_h$ which moves the robot either \textit{up} or \textit{down}. More generally, we want to encourage the user to teleoperate the robot in the \textit{direction} that best removes uncertainty over the human's goal. Recall that our haptic device has vibrotactors distributed around the wearer's wrist (see \fig{haptic}). By actuating these vibrotactors in patterns we render direction-based prompts to the human \cite{che2020efficient}. Let $\mathcal{U}$ be the set of prompts we can render: for instance, $u_z \in \mathcal{U}$ alternates between actuating the top and bottom vibrotactors to prompt the user to teleoperate the robot up or down. Given that the robot has reached a critical state, which stimuli $u \in \mathcal{U}$ should we send? Intuitively, we search for the stimulus $u$ which --- if the human responds --- provides the most \textit{information} about the human's unknown goal. Formally, we elicit the direction of human teaching that greedily maximizes the robot's expected information gain: \begin{equation} \label{eq:H2} u^(s) = \text{arg}\max_{u \in \mathcal{U}} ~ I(g, a_h \mid u, s, b) \end{equation} Here $I$ is mutual information and $a_h$ is the human's response to prompt $u$. When solving for $u^$ we assume that the human will comply with the robot's prompt --- so that if the robot chooses $u_z$, the human will input either $a_h = up$ or $a_h = down$. Expanding \eq{H2}, we obtain \cite{biyik2020learning}: \begin{multline} \label{eq:H3} u^(s) = \text{arg}\max_{u \in \mathcal{U}} \sum_{a_h \in u}\sum_{g \in \mathcal{G}} b(g)P(a_h \mid u, s, g) \\ \cdot \log_2\frac{P(a_h \mid u, s, g)}{\sum_{g' \in \mathcal{G}}b(g')P(a_h \mid u, s, g)} \end{multline} The key to evaluating \eq{H3} is modeling the likelihood function $P(a_h \mid u, s, g)$, which captures how likely it is that the human will respond with action $a_h$ to prompt $u$. In other words, if we signal prompt $u_z$, what is the probability the human applies $a_h=up$ instead of $a_h=down$? Just like before, we leverage the Boltzmann-rational model: \begin{equation} \label{eq:H4} P(a_h \mid u, s, g) = \frac{e^{\beta Q_g(s, a_h)}}{\sum_{a \in u} ~e^{\beta Q_g(s, a)}} \end{equation} Comparing \eq{H4} to \eq{V2}, the only difference is our assumption that the human will respond by moving the robot in one of the two discrete directions suggested by $u$. We emphasize that this assumption is purely used to solve for the optimal prompt, and is not imposed in our user study. \p{Haptic Mapping} Putting it all together, \eq{H1} lets us know \textit{when} to provide haptic prompts, and Equations~(\ref{eq:H3}) and (\ref{eq:H4}) tell us \textit{which} direction-based prompts will elicit the most information. Within the context of our motivating example: as the robot nears the shelves it realizes that it needs more information, and alerts the user by vibrating the haptic wristband on the top and bottom --- encouraging to the human to teleoperate the robot either up or down. \section{Related Work} We build on prior work towards explainable robot learners. This includes research that generally communicates robot intent to nearby humans, research that specifically focuses on augmented reality and haptic displays, and research that reveals what the robot is inferring during shared autonomy. \p{Communicating Robot Intent} For humans and robots to seamlessly collaborate it must be clear to the human what the robot is trying to do \cite{hellstrom2018understandable}. Recent works have developed a variety of different modalities that robots leverage to convey their intent. For instance, robots can use legible \textit{motions} to make their goals clear to human onlookers \cite{dragan2013legibility, szafir2014communication}, or incorporate natural \textit{language} to communicate their objective \cite{tellex2014asking, knepper2017implicit}. Non-verbal communication such as \textit{gestures} \cite{cha2018survey, gielniak2011generating} or \textit{gaze} \cite{admoni2016predicting} are also expressive channels for indicating where the robot plans to go. Besides these implicit cues, robots employ explicit indicators in the form of \textit{projections} \cite{andersen2016projecting, baraka2016enhancing} --- where they render 2D images onto the environment --- or on-board \textit{lights} \cite{weng2019robot} --- which are functionally similar to turn signals on cars. But while many distinct modalities are available for conveying \textit{intent}, we emphasize that this is different from communicating robot \textit{inference}. Think of our motivating example: communicating the robot's intent is equivalent to showing the final cup location and orientation that the robot thinks is most likely and currently intends to reach. Yet this alone is not enough to make the robot's learning transparent: we may also need to highlight the alternative goals and trajectories the robot is reasoning over, or ask the human for additional feedback to determine which goal is correct. \p{Augmented Reality and Haptics} In order to convey detailed and attention grabbing signals about robot inference we turn to augmented reality and haptic feedback. Augmented reality head-mounted displays have previously been used to facilitate human-robot interaction \cite{newbury2021visualizing, hoang2021virtual}. Most relevant here are \cite{walker2018communicating, rosen2019communicating, muhammad2019creating, chandan2021arroch}, where the authors leverage augmented reality to convey the robot's internal state, visualize where the robot plans to go, and establish bidirectional communication with the human. This visual overlay succeeds when users are looking directly at the robot --- but when users look away, these graphics are no longer in view. We explore settings where the human must split their attention between the robot and other tasks. Accordingly, we incorporate haptic wristbands that humans wear without encumbering their hands. Recent works have designed similar wristbands to provide tactile feedback for augmented reality \cite{pezent2019tasbi, aggravi2018design}. Overall, today's research on augmented reality and haptic feedback either develops these two modalities separately, or else utilizes haptics to make interactions with the virtual world seem more realistic. By contrast, we combine the two modalities into a \textit{single} framework to close-the-loop during robot inference. Both active and passive feedback are important because they serve complementary roles: we leverage augmented reality to visualize the high-dimensional behaviors the robot has inferred, and apply haptics to spark and direct user inputs when additional teaching is required. \p{Revealing Robot Inference} Creating learners that are interpretable by human users is an active area of study \cite{arrieta2020explainable}. For instance, in \cite{huang2019enabling} the robot displays informative examples of its learned behavior on a computer screen, enabling users to extrapolate the robot's underlying objective. Understanding robot learning becomes especially challenging when that learning consists of networks with thousands of weights. However, shared autonomy requires only \textit{low-dimensional} inference: here the robot is inferring the human's desired goal from a discrete set of options \cite{jain2019probabilistic, javdani2018shared, dragan2013policy}. Related work has taken advantage of this structure to visualize the robot's inferred goal using augmented reality \cite{brooks2020visualization, zolotas2018head}. \begin{figure}[t] \begin{center} \includegraphics[width=1.8\columnwidth]{Figures/haptics.pdf} \vspace{-1em} \caption{Our haptic wristband for delivering active feedback. This device can both gently squeeze the wearer's wrist and render localized vibration patterns. \textbf{Left:} Exploded view of the electronics housing. The microcontroller (1) sits over the battery (2) and squeeze mechanism (3). Three motor drivers responsible for controlling vibration (4) are accessible behind the front panel. \textbf{Middle-Left:} Fully assembled haptic device with cord (5). \textbf{Middle-Right:} Vibrotactors (6) are held in place by printed casings (7). \textbf{Right:} To prompt the human we squeeze their wrist and activate multiple vibrotactors in a pre-defined pattern. For instance, powering the left and right vibrotactors encourages the human to guide the robot either right or left.} \label{fig:haptic} \end{center} \vspace{-2em} \end{figure*} Importantly, this related research provides purely \textit{passive} feedback to the user: i.e., while the user watches the robot they see overlays indicating where the robot thinks it should go. But we are also interested in \textit{active} feedback which influences the human to provide new and informative demonstrations. We envision a system that prompts the human when the robot is confused, and even suggests to the human the direction of input that would best reduce the robot's uncertainty about the human's desired goal. \section{User Study} \label{sec:user} To test how passive and active multimodal feedback closes the loop during robot inference, we conducted a user study motivated by assistive robotics. Participants interacted with a 2-DoF joystick to teleoperate a 7-DoF robot. The robot shared autonomy with the participant: as the robot inferred the human's goal in real-time during the task, it leveraged different types of feedback to communicate what it had inferred back to the user. We designed experiments where participants had to trade-off between teaching on the robot and focusing on a distractor task. \p{Independent Variables} We compared four different feedback conditions: \begin{itemize} \item A graphical user interface (\textbf{GUI}) on the computer screen \item Passive augmented reality feedback (\textbf{AR}) \item Active haptic feedback (\textbf{Haptic}) \item Augmented reality + haptic feedback (\textbf{AR+Haptic}) \end{itemize} Within the \textbf{GUI} baseline we displayed a graphical user interface on the same computer screen as the distractor task. This \textbf{GUI} provided both active and passive feedback: we displayed the robot's belief over each goal, and printed a text alert when the robot reached a critical state. The \textbf{AR} and \textbf{Haptic} baselines are suitable for purely passive or active feedback. In all cases where we used \textbf{Haptic} to provide active cues the participants responded by teaching the robot. Similarly, participants with \textbf{AR} feedback were confident that they understood the robot's intent (see \fig{subjective}). Finally, the \textbf{AR+Haptic} condition is our proposed approach from Section~\ref{sec:method} that combines both passive and active feedback. \p{Experimental Setup} Participants completed four tasks with every feedback condition. In the \textit{Placing} task (see \fig{front}) participants taught the robot to place a coffee cup on the shelf. There were $8$ candidate goals the robot considered: the front or back of the top shelf, the front or back of the bottom shelf, and putting the cup down either upright or on its side. In the \textit{Avoiding} task (see \fig{task}) users adjusted the robot's motion to avoid an obstacle. The robot initially moved directly towards this obstacle and was unsure if it needed to avoid it, and if so, which way it should go around. Here the robot had $4$ discrete candidate goals: moving through, to the left, to the right, or above the obstacle. Both the \textit{Sorting} task and the \textit{Forgetting} task started in the same way with the robot carrying a bottle of glue towards the shelves. The robot had $4$ candidate goals corresponding to different locations on the shelf. In the \textit{Sorting} task the user taught the robot to sort the glue on the lower shelf. By contrast, half-way through the \textit{Forgetting} task the robot automatically became confused about the human's goal (i.e., it forgot what it had learned), so that it required additional teaching. During all four tasks users divided their attention between teaching the robot and playing a distractor game. Within this game participants tried to track a moving target with their mouse, and accrued points when their mouse was inside the target. Because the game was played on a screen orthogonal to the robot, users could not focus on both the game and robot at the same time. The set of haptic cues $\mathcal{U}$ included three options: i) alternating the top and bottom vibrotactors, ii) alternating the left and right vibrotactors, and iii) actuating all vibrotactors in a circular pattern. \p{Participants and Procedure} We recruited ten participants from the Virginia Tech community to take part in our study (4 female, average age $24.3 \pm 3.0$ years). All subjects provided informed written consent prior to the experiment. Half of the participants had previous experience interacting with a robot arm, and two participants had used augmented reality before. Participants teleoperated the robot for up to five minutes to familiarize themselves with each feedback method. We used a within-subjects study design: every participant interacted with all four feedback conditions. To mitigate the confounding effect of participants improving over time, we counterbalanced the order of the feedback conditions. \p{Dependent Measures -- Objective} We recorded the amount of time users spent teaching the robot with the joystick (\textit{Interaction Time}), as well as the total score users achieved on the distractor game (\textit{Distractor Score}). We also measured the user's \textit{Teaching Efficiency}. To compute this we recorded $b(g)$, the robot's learned belief in the human's desired goal at the end of the task. Recall that $b(g)$ is a scalar, where $b(g) \rightarrow 1$ indicates that the robot correctly inferred the human's goal. Following \cite{sena2020quantifying}, we then divided this scalar by the user's interaction time (i.e., the amount of time they teleoperated the robot). Intuitively, a high \textit{Teaching Efficiency} indicates that the human accurately taught the robot their desired goal through a smaller number of well-timed corrections. \p{Dependent Measures -- Subjective} Participants filled out a 7-point Likert scale survey after each method. Questions were grouped into five multi-item scales (see \fig{subjective}): did the user understand the robot's \textit{intent}, did the user know when the robot needed more teaching (\textit{prompt}), did the robot make it clear what type of \textit{teaching} to provide, did the robot \textit{reveal} what it knew and did not know, and did the user \textit{prefer} this current feedback method to the alternatives. \begin{figure}[t] \begin{center} \includegraphics[width=0.8\columnwidth]{Figures/subjective.pdf} \caption{Subjective results from our user study. Colors are consistent with \fig{objective}, and higher ratings indicate agreement (i.e., conveys intent, prompts for help). Overall, participants preferred teaching the robot with multimodal \textbf{AR+Haptic} feedback. We note that some users reported the \textbf{AR} device to be uncomfortable, which may skew their perception of this condition.} \label{fig:subjective} \end{center} \vspace{-2em} \end{figure} \p{Hypotheses} We had three hypotheses in this user study: \begin{displayquote} \textbf{H1.} \emph{Users with passive visual feedback (\textbf{AR}) will minimize interaction time.} \end{displayquote} \begin{displayquote} \textbf{H2.} \emph{Users with active haptic feedback (\textbf{Haptic}) will maximize score on the distractor task.} \end{displayquote} \begin{displayquote} \textbf{H3.} \emph{Users with multimodal feedback (\textbf{AR+Haptic}) will maximize teaching efficiency.} \end{displayquote} \p{Results -- Objective} An example interaction is illustrated in \fig{task}, and our aggregate results across all tasks are plotted in \fig{objective}. When interpreting these results, remember that we want to minimize interaction time while maximizing teaching efficiency and distractor score. Because \textbf{AR} displays what the robot has inferred, we anticipated that with \textbf{AR} participants would know when the robot understood their goal, and would only interact as much as needed. More specifically, we anticipated that \textbf{AR} would minimize interaction time. This turned out not to be true: only in the \textit{Avoiding} task did \textbf{AR} reduce the interaction time. When looking at the aggregated results, post hoc analysis shows no significant differences in interaction time between \textbf{AR} and \textbf{GUI} ($p=.55$) or \textbf{AR} and \textbf{Haptic} ($p=.93$). Unlike passive \textbf{AR}, active \textbf{Haptic} feedback grabs the human's attention when teaching is required. Since this method provides alerts, participants can focus on the distractor game until they receive a prompt. To test \textbf{H2}, we compared the distractor score with and without \textbf{Haptic}. We found that in either the \textbf{Haptic} or \textbf{AR+Haptic} condition participants scored statistically significantly higher than with \textbf{GUI} or \textbf{AR} ($p < .01$). This suggests that active feedback reduces the amount of time users spent monitoring the robot. Thus far we have looked at the results of \textbf{AR} and \textbf{Haptic} individually; what happens when we combine these into multimodal \textbf{AR+Haptic} feedback? Inspecting \fig{objective}, participants using \textbf{AR+Haptic} had lower interaction time and higher teaching efficiency than the alternatives ($p < .01$). These results support \textbf{H3}. We conclude that the synthesis of passive and active feedback was more effective for communicating robot inference than either method in isolation. \p{Results -- Subjective} The results from our 7-point Likert scale survey are listed in \fig{subjective}. We first tested the reliability of all five scales using Cronbach's alpha, and found every scale to be reliable ($\alpha$ > 0.7). Accordingly, we grouped the participants' responses within each scale into a single combined score, and ran a one-way repeated measures ANOVA. Post-hoc tests revealed that users preferred \textbf{AR+Haptic} to the alternatives ($p < .05$). One user commented that \textit{``the combination of tactile and visual feedback made this method the easiest to control the robot.''} \p{Limitations} During our user study the \textbf{AR} was implemented on a Microsoft HoloLens. Several participants indicated that they disliked wearing this device for prolonged periods: ``\textit{the HoloLens is uncomfortable to wear.''} We recognize that user comfort may be a confounding factor that negatively affected \textbf{AR} results. In addition, our results indicate that providing passive and active feedback on the \textbf{GUI} was roughly on par with passive feedback in \textbf{AR}. This suggests that a \textbf{GUI+Haptic} system (with passive visual feedback and active haptic prompts) could potentially achieve similar performance as \textbf{AR+Haptic}. However, here the GUI must be located in a position where human teachers can readily view it while interacting with the robot arm. Our future work will explore intuitive \textbf{GUI} design for \textbf{GUI+Haptic} systems.
Perthshire church Armistice display to "recapture" the hope for peace A Perthshire church with ties to the armed forces past and present will mark 100 years since the Armistice with a poignant display of poppies. Inchture Church has been decorated inside and out by members of the congregation and those who attend the linked charges The outside of the church Inchture Kirk, which is around 9 miles west of Dundee on the banks of the River Tay has been covered in 3,000 poppies carefully handmade by members of local parishes. The building, which dates from 1891 but has origins going back nearly 900 years, also has a further 1,000 poppies inside. Despite the small size of the community, both the minister and a member of the congregation have recent experiences of war which has added a personal angle to the project. Rev Dr Marjory MacLean, who will lead the service of remembrance at the war memorial in Inchture on November 11, spent several years as a chaplain in the Royal Naval Reserve and served in Afghanistan. Dr Ian Mellor, who came up with the idea for the display, is a consultant at Ninewells Hospital who has also served as a medic in both Iraq and in Afghanistan. Dr Mellor said he was inspired by the "spectacular" display he saw at another church last year and suggested that the congregation at Inchture could do something similar despite being a "tiny church". Making the poppies Dr Ian Mellor in Afghanistan "It's 100 years since what we hoped would be the war to end all wars", he said. "I thought we should recapture this hope." "We've only had one year since that time when our forces have not been involved in a conflict." "WWI was the first industrialised war - it was so much worse than anyone imagined. "In my mind it's a chance for people to pay their respects." He is pleased that the village, where 24 names appear on the local memorial from World War One, has "responded very positively" to the project. Dr MacLean also emphasises the personal nature of the display. "I was in Afghanistan so there is an awareness of this in the area", she said, adding that the display has "captured our imagination". Each poppy has been carefully handmade For a small village congregation the scale of the display reflects a massive local effort involving neighbouring churches in Abernyte , Kinnaird and Longforgan who are linked to Inchture. Rev Dr Marjory MacLean serving in Afghanistan "We thought we might get a few hundred poppies - we now have 10 times that," she said. "Our flower convener, June alone, has made nearly 1,000 for the inside of the church. "It's taking a team of people days to attach these to their nets." The church will be open the weekend of Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 for people to see the display - Two local schools are seeing the display on the Friday before, which Dr MacLean feels is particularly important. "I think that will be something significant to remember as a child", she said. Visiting Inchture Armistice day events: 06.05am Piper plays the Battles O'er (part of the national celebration) outside the church 09.30 Service of remembrance at the war memorial followed by the usual service in church at 09.45 18.55 Bugler will play the Last Post 19.05 The church bell will be rung Inchture will be open for visitors at the following times: Friday 9th November 14.000 - 16.00 Saturday 10th November 10.00 - 12.00 and 13.30 - 16.00 Sunday 11th November 14.00 - 16.00
Over the last few decades, Gyros has certainly gained a reputation as one of the more popular Greek food items on menus across Chicagoland. Chicago's northwest suburbs experienced huge population growth in the decade of the 90's. In particular, the town of Crystal Lake in McHenry County saw its population increase by 50% from 24,000 people in 1990 to over 38,000 by the year 2000.
Nespresso introduces two coffees exclusive to Australia's best restaurants Nespresso has introduced two rare coffees, exclusive to a handful of Australia's leading chefs and restaurants. Nespresso's Exclusive Selection single origin coffees are served at Melbourne's Vue de monde, Sydney's Tetsuya's, Ormeggio at the Spit, No. 1 Bent Street and Bowral's Biota. Introduced to a select number of Michelin-starred restaurants internationally in 2017, the two new coffees come from very different but equally remote origins. The first, Kilimanjaro Peaberry, is grown on the steep and fertile slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, while Népal Lamjung is cultivated in small plantations located in the Himalayan foothills of Nepal, home to one of the world's rarest beans. Nespresso has been working closely with small coffee-growing communities in both areas to produce coffees which are not only exceptional, but environmentally and socially sustainable. Each coffee has a unique flavour profile. Kilimanjaro Peaberry is the lighter of the two, possessing a full bodied and incredibly fruity character, with notes of exotic fruits. In contrast, Nepal Lamjung is a rich, intense coffee with a soft, velvety texture and notes of fresh toast. Nespresso has a long history of working with some of the world's leading chefs, and this latest launch is another step in enhancing the coffee experience they deliver to their guests and maintaining its consistency. "Coffee is typically the last thing guests will taste before they leave a restaurant and so it lingers in their memory. For us, choosing the right coffee is as important as choosing the right wine," says chef Tetsuya Wakuda. Chef Shannon Bennett agrees: "Coffee is integral to the overall dining experience – it's the last impression, the final moment. It's not the time to drop the ball." Nespresso recently gathered 14 of the world's top chefs, including Wakuda, at their headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, to discuss the evolving role of coffee in restaurants. "We're committed to helping chefs meet their guests' demand for exceptional coffee and it's exciting that chefs like Shannon (Bennett), Tetsuya (Wakuda) and James (Viles) have had such a positive response to these two coffees," says Nespresso Coffee Ambassador Mitch Monaghan. Bennett says: "It's an important point of difference for Vue de monde, to offer a coffee that's exclusive and rare, but which still reflects best practice cultivation and production. The world of coffee is exciting and complex and we really enjoy encouraging our guests to explore it further with us." About 'Exclusive Selection Nepal Lamjung' The 'Exclusive Selection Nepal Lamjung' is sourced from the Himalayan foothills, home to one of the world's rarest beans. The coffee is grown in very limited quantities by a group of just over 3000 farmers and is hand harvested and pulped. Every farmer processes his own beans. Nespresso uses a two-part roasting technique to bring complex nuances to the coffee. One part is dark roasted to add an intense character, while the other is long roasted to enhance smoothness. The result is an intense coffee with fresh notes of toasted bread and a supple, velvety texture, which works particularly well when balanced with chocolate. About 'Exclusive Selection Kilimanjaro Peaberry' The 'Exclusive Selection Kilimanjaro Peaberry' is made with hand-harvested Arabica Peaberry beans from the remote slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. In around 5% of the crop, the coffee cherry produces one rather than the usual two beans, meaning that the flavour is concentrated. The bean, which is smaller and rounder than most coffee beans, is grown, processed and dried with care by farmers with smallholdings of less than two acres. This care, combined with unique growing conditions results in a coffee with a natural fruity profile that works particularly well when served alongside spirits, such as rum. About Nespresso – Encapsulating quality: From coffee bean to coffee cup Nespresso stands for high quality portioned coffee. And quality cannot be left to chance; it is rigorously managed at every step of the Nespresso value chain from coffee bean selection to extraction into the consumer's cup to ensure a consistently exceptional taste experience. Because of its strict coffee selection process and sourcing based on select terroirs, Nespresso creates its quality coffee by selecting and picking the most tasteful beans. We are lucky to be working with over 70,000 farmers who are as committed as we are to cultivating these rare beans. That's how they meet the quality, sustainability and productivity standards of our AAA Program. The selected green beans are transformed into Nespresso coffees through meticulous blending, roasting and grinding. They are then encapsulated in an oxygen-free environment in hermetically sealed aluminium capsules. Aluminium is the only material that guarantees optimum freshness, protecting the coffee from the damaging effects of air, light and moisture. There are 24 coffees in the permanent in-home range, 13 in the Professional range not including Exclusive Selection coffees and 20 in the VERTUO range, each boasting a different origin, flavour and intensity to suit every taste preference. For more information on the Nespresso coffee expertise please visit: www.nespresso.com/Thechoiceswemake For more information on Nespresso and fine dining please visit: www.nespresso.com.pro/chefs For more information on our company, please visit the Nespresso corporate website: www.nestle-nespresso.com tags: Nespresso
Name Otto 1899 Grebe Status Registered Function Leisure Craft Subfunction Launch Vessel type Open Launch Info required No Builder Forrestt & Sons Ltd, Wivenhoe Hull material Steel Primary engine type Steam triple expansion Boiler type Locomotive Boilermaker Abbot & Co, Newark What is the vessel's ability to demonstrate history in her physical fabric? OTTO is a fast, steel hulled launch, fitted with her original powerful triple expansion Sissons steam engine. Her design sees the rudder mounted forwards of the propeller, making her difficult to handle at low speeds in confined areas. There is a high percentage of original material and fittings in this craft which adds greatly to her significance and she will be restored with the minimum intervention of new material, whilst retaining the capacity for operational use. What are the vessel's associational links for which there is no physical evidence? OTTO was built at Wivenhoe by Forrestt & Sons in 1896 as the GREBE, having been designed by A R Sladen for his brother Mortimer of Cleve House, Windermere. She is a magnificent example of the private steam launches designed for pleasure at the turn of the 20th Century. OTTO has spent her whole life on Lake Windermere and therefore has a strong association to this area. How does the vessel's shape or form combine and contribute to her function? OTTO has a strong, well proportioned riveted steel hull which, with a powerful engine and advanced propeller design, gave her a high speed. Her canopied accommodation was designed to cater for some 10-12 guests out for a day on the Lake. Source: George Hogg, Registration Sub Committee, National Historic Ships Date: May 2011. Built in 1896 by Forrest & Sons Ltd., of Wyvenhoe for J M Sladen and named GREBE, this is a launch with a riveted steel hull and a triple expansion engine by W Sisson & Co., Gloucester. In 1899, she was sold to W Whitehead and renamed. OTTO was subsequently owned by Sir W Crossley and S Rhodes. She was acquired in 1973 by Hon. Patrick Lindsay who had the hull and plant overhauled by R B Harrison. She was then bought by the Windermere Steamboat Museum in 1980 and remains there on display Registered, built 1910 by Gill & Sons, Rochester Kariat Archived, built 1897 by Liquid Fuel Engineering Company, Isle of Wight Lady Lena Registered, built 1890 by Burgoine, C & A, Hampton Wick Duchess of Argyll Archived, built 1883 by Unknown
Le village américain de est situé à cheval sur les comtés de Guernsey et Belmont, dans l'Ohio. Lors du recensement de 2010, il comptait . Démographie Références Liens externes Village dans l'Ohio Comté de Guernsey Comté de Belmont
Crossroads VISIT US ON THE WEB: "npmafc.com" Newsletter of the North Penn Model A Ford Club March 2010 MARCH MEETING on the 1st Penndale Middle School March Refreshments Longcoy, Anderson March Birthdays 12 Franklin Burke 15 Grace Landis 30 Dave Whitmire APRIL MONTHLY MEETING April 5th Penndale Middle School April Refreshments Landis, Berlinger * * * * * * * * Minutes of the February 1, 2010 Vice president John Elliott opened the meeting at 7:34 p.m. with 29 members attending Minutes of the November meeting were read and approved as written. Charles Kerper treasurer reported a balance of $ 1546.18 as of February 1, 2010. The report was approved as submitted. Fred Schempp discussed the possible spring tour to include a lunch at Mensch Mill. Further discussion will be continued at a future meet-ing. April 17 Pennypacker Mills Day – event will be held 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. Coffee and donuts will be provided but our members will need to bring lunch or buy lunch from a vendor on the grounds. April 25 – Renninger's yearly gathering will take place. Club members are planning a tour once again to go there. All are welcome. Gormley's and the Whitmire's will be organiz-ing the tour. May 15 – Elm Terrace car show and parade is being planned. More information will be pro-vided in the future. Some of our club members have been asked to assist. June 26 – our club picnic will be held at Green Lane Park. Details will be coming. Meeting refreshment list is not being filled by "volunteers" – members needed to sign up to complete the 4 members per month. Gene Yeager provided a report about the club tool list. Gene then followed up with a report on the "New Life" facility located in the Schwenks-ville area. Both boys and girls are housed there. But we would interact only with the boys. A weekday in May has been suggested as the facility has full staff at that time. They do have an auto shop. A specific date and time will be discussed as we plan our time there. Ray Bosler is checking on our possible interac-tion/visit with the tech school. Tech sessions – a need to continue them was discussed. We need a place to hold them. Dick Longcoy brought a copy of the Lehigh Valley Club Newsletter for all to review. Dick would like individual member's stories or any printed interesting ideas to use in our newslet-ter. Our newsletter format will be left up to Dick. (NEW BUSINESS cont.) Jerry Yarborough has a facility for vehicle sto-rage indoor and outdoor. It is in the Hatfield area with various prices for monthly rates. He can be reached at Cell: 215 803-9328 or home: 215 368-4893. August 6, 7, 8 – Macungie Annual Car Show. Saturday August 7 is our club day at the show. We are all invited to breakfast at the Wood's on the way to the show. Barry Papiernik now has a Model A car care service - including sales and parts. Appoint-ments can be made by calling 610 247-1609. The club needs to check with the school about room availability dates for future meetings. Annual AACA Meeting in Philadelphia is Feb-ruary 11 – 13. Wayne Watson will be giving a lecture on Model A's on Friday the 12th. Howard Kriebel discussed possible plan for tires with Coker Tires if purchased in quantity – no shipping charge to Carlisle. Tech session 1 – Howard Kriebel presented a discussion on engine head gaskets. Tech session 2 – Jerry Anderson presented a discussion on restoration and repair of oval speedometers. A terrific handout was made available. The meeting was adjourned at 9 p.m. Dini Vigliano – Secretary Tom Hudecki is looking for the following items for a 1928/1929 PICKUP: narrow bed; sun visor; seat riser; seats; door glass; door hinges; 21" wheels. (610) 202-5779 Jerry Anderson needs these preferably origi-nal parts in good, restorable condition for com-pletion of his June 1929 MURRAY TOWN SEDAN: Center bumper clamp - either oval or round; Backing plate for center bumper clamp; At least 5 sets of Schraeder TR-80 6300 tire valves and covers (per "Typical 1928-1929 Tire Stem and Hardware") in Judging Standards; Right hand tail light (does not have cut-out for the clear glass license plate lens on the bottom of the teacup); Oil breather tube; Rear backing plates (2 ribs, but can be either the type with or without the "flat spot" on the cone); Cup wash-ers for the radiator support rods. Dick Longcoy has industrial type florescent lamps available all have bulbs and light deflec-tors: 7 pc. 2-bulb 4 ft. long @ $10 ea. 1 pc. 2- bulb 8ft. long $20 (From the internet) Cup of Tea One day my mother was out and my dad was in charge of me. I was maybe 2 1/2 years old. Someone had given me a little 'tea set'as a gift and it was one of my favorite toys. Daddy was in the living room engrossed in the evening news when I brought daddy a little cup of 'tea', which was just water. After several cups of tea and lots of praise for such yummy tea, my Mom came home. My Dad made her wait in the living Room to watch me bring him a cup of Tea, because it was 'just the cutest thing!' My Mom waited, and sure enough, here I come down the hall with a cup of tea for Daddy and she watches him drink it up. Then she says, (as only a mother would know...) 'Did it ever occur to you that the only place she can reach to get water is the toilet?' Letters from the Roth's They have been sending back reports as they go along. Jan 27, 2010 - Our trip so far I Hi All, Just a quick note - from us in the Cook Islands. We left Philadelphia at some awful early hour last Sunday morning, to arrive in LA where we were to spend 12 hours. So, being tourists, we took the city tour - a nice drive to see the sights throughout the city. For us it was great since we really don't know a thing about the place. Saw the beaches, homes of the great, and some of the retail stores that unaffordable. Then on to Rarotonga, Cook Islands. The island of Raro-tonga is the capital of the Cooks, a group of about 15 islands, only some inhabited. Total population of the Cooks is about 15000, of which 11000 are on this island. Rarotonga is round, with only one main road around the cir-cumference. There are two bus routes, labelled 'Clockwise' and 'Anti-Clockwise'. The island is balmy, with a constant breeze - warm and beau-tiful. Very clean beaches all the way round, with a coral reef breaking the waves a couple of hundred meters out. The center of the island is made up of high basically impassable moun-tains. Needless to say, we're having a great time - basically relaxing before our next destination, next week, New Zealand. See you soon, Ed and Karen Wed. Feb 3, 2010 - Our trip so far – II Hello again, Right after we wrote the last time, the Cook Islands were hit by a cyclone. Well, it turns out a cyclone is another word for hurricane - and thank goodness, it turned out not to be too bad. Just a lot of rain for two days and tremendous wind - and, in spite of it, our plans were not too badly messed up. We left the islands in beauti-ful sunshine. Our lasting impression is a very clean island, nice people, and a relatively non-tourist atmosphere. Coming into Auckland, New Zealand, we had to drive through the rain, on the wrong side of the road (left side), at midnight, into a city with not one straight road. But the next day, touring the city, we found water everywhere. The city has more sailboats per capita than anywhere else in the world. With islands stretching out sixty miles from the mainland, it is a sailing mecca. And then it was off to hobbit-land. This is where Lord of the Rings was filmed, and the terrain really looks like it. Turns out New Zeal-and was formed from a string of volcanoes and the evidence is everywhere. Very hilly, bumpy terrain. Today we spent out day in Rotorua, an area of very great geo-thermal activity. Steam vents, sulphur smell, bubbling mud pools in and around town -really interesting. This area was developed around spas that were built in the early 1900s for medicinal cures. Tomorrow we're off to do some kayaking in another crater lake. That's it for now. Ed and Karen Sun, 7 Feb 2010 - Our trip so far - III Hello All. New Zealand is made up of two islands, North and South. Having driven much the length of New Zealand's North Island, today we took the 3 hour ferry ride to the South Island. The North Island was beautiful, so perfectly clean, greeen and fresh, and we almost hated to leave it be-hind. The city of Auckland, where we started, has one third the population of NZ, the national to-tal being about 4.3 million. For a country the size of Great Britan or Japan, this resaulta in a very low population density. About 30% of the population is Maori, Polynesian descendents who have inhabited many of the islands in the South Seas. The Maori's live primarily in Auckland, while the rest of the country is pri-marily of British origin. Farming (cows, sheep, dairy and grapes) is the largest national industry, with lumbering a close second. Except for the most rugged mountains, outside of town just about every bit of land is used, for farming or managed forests. Everywhere you look, the hills are covered with cows and sheep. The roads are good, but normally just two lanes outside of town - there's just not enough traffic to justify more capacity. The Kiwi's, as they call themselves, are very eco-conscious, recycling everything thinkable, and minimizing water and electricity usage All is clean, no trash anywhere - and a distinct lack of old cars. I think all of us could live here easi-ly. Our kayaking trip of a few days ago took 4 hours. Lake Taupo is largest lake in NZ, laying inside a dormant volcano, about 25 miles long and 10 miles wide. Two days ago we were in Napier, a town destroyed by an earthquake in the early 1930's and rebuilt in the art-deco style - really neat. The town is surrounded by vi-neyards and wineries. Yesterday we visited a farm town's annual street fair, which brings folks in from all the near countryside. Fun, lots of local crafts and food. Its a crime that we have no more room in our suitcases. In the af-ternoon we visted the Southward Auto Museum - 100's of cars from all over the world, all fully restored. We spent the evening outside Wel-lington, the nation's capital city. It is a small, very modern city - but we saw little as the city was jammed with rugby fans, the national sport. Seems that the world championship games were going on for Rugby 7 - where each team fields only 7 players instead of the normal number - apparently offering a much faster, exciting game. So we're keeping busy - now for the South Isl-and. Ed and Karen * * * * * * * * Mon, 15 Feb 2010 - Our trip so far - IV Hello All, Another update on a trip going very well! New Zealand's South Island is so different from the North Island. Whereas up north the land is hilly, green and totally utilized, down south very high mountains (the Southern Alps) ex-tend the full length of the island. On the west-ern side of the island the land is green as a re-sult of heavy rainfall, while on the eastern side the land is dry and barren except where irri-gated. Very similar to the US Pacific coast. Mount Cook is the highest mountain and ap-parently extremely rugged. It was not climbed successfully until 1947 when Sir Edmund Hil-lary first conquered the mountain, before he conquered Mt. Everest. The population density of the South Island is very low - people live in one large city (Christ-church), about a dozen medium size towns, and many small villages. Otherwise the land is vir-tually empty. The first place we stayed, at the northern top of the South Island, was about the size of Lans-dale (~15,000). In the town square we attended a busker's festival, very popular here, featuring music, magic, trapeze and the like. The next day we traveled past one vineyard (and winery) after another, followed by more sheep and dairy farms, finally arriving in Kaikoura, south along the eastern coast. A Mouri tribal leader took us on a tour while describing the Maori ways and traditions, and invited us to his home. Then it was on to Christchurch, half-way down the eastern coast. Christchurch is London in the Southern Hemisphere. Large, formal central church square (Church of England), punt boats on the River Avon, art and history museums, and the largest botanical garden in the Southern Hemisphere, old architecture mixed with ul-tramodern . Visits to two lake towns took the next couple of days, and today we visited the Milford Fiord on the south-western coast, an area of rain forest crowned with glacier/snow peaked mountains. The mountains around the fiord drop thousands of feet, in shear cliffs, right into the water. Tomorrow we travel to Queenstown, another town in the English tradi-tion, and then we're off to Australia. New Zealand has been really great - the New Zealanders describe themselves as having re-laxed attitudes, and that's really true. A lot of fun. Karen's missing Cricket, our cat... Have fun in the snow, Ed and Karen
Athlete Farm Training to Optimize Your Athletic Potential 10/14/2020 10:00:00 AM \| (0) Comments \| Return As the sports community pivoted to skills training and athlete development this year, there are some unique businesses for the athlete in all of us to train, strengthen and get ready for the next level. Athlete Farm Training, located at 34 Dalkeith Drive in Brantford, is a strength and conditioning facility that works with athletes to help them optimize their athletic potential. It's a space for athlete improvement but also a training facility for the "Everyday Athlete" to create and succeed with their own personal workout plan. This 8,000 sq ft facility has been owned and operated for the past five years by husband and wife team Luke and Taylor VanMoerkerke. Taylor's sport background is in lacrosse where she was named to Canada's U19 team, had a successful college career at Virginia Tech, attended UOIT in Oshawa where she was awarded the Most Valuable Offensive Player in the league as well as UOIT Female Varsity Athlete of the Year. Recently, Taylor has been coaching the offense of the Western Mustangs women's lacrosse program. Luke was a hockey player that grew up on a farm in Tillsonburg and played three seasons in the Ontario Hockey League then UOIT in Oshawa where he played five seasons of Canadian University Hockey. But it's his indelible connection to Brantford that brought them here to open an athlete focused training facility. He was a member of the Brantford Golden Eagles, which won the Sutherland Cup provincial junior B hockey championship in 2009. The team will be inducted into the Brantford and Area Sports Hall of Recognition for 2020. Athlete Farm Training works with many coaches and local athletes to help elevate their conditioning and skill levels. Counting amongst its members that they have trained are athletes from: Brant and District Football Club (Brantford Bisons), Brantford Girls Hockey Association, Brantford Minor Hockey Association, Brantford Aquatic Club, Brantford Harlequins Rugby Football Club, Red Sox Baseball, Brantford City Soccer Club and Brantford Galaxy Youth Soccer Club. With workouts that are tailored to the athlete's specific needs, it's a great way to take them to the next level both during the season and off-season. The facility has incorporate many safety measures to ensure the health and safety of its members and coaches including: temperature checks and contact tracing upon entry, social distancing of attendees, masks for coaches, hand sanitizer and wipes throughout the space and coaches wipe down and clean after sessions. For more information or to sign up for sessions at Athlete Farm Training email [email protected] or follow them on Facebook. Athlete Farm Training
← One Random Single a Day #29: "Jungle Love" (1977) by Steve Miller Band One Random Single a Day #31: "Glory Days" (1991) by Lindberg → One Random Single a Day #30: "Expo 2000" (1999) by Kraftwerk I was really excited to have stumbled upon a single by Kraftwerk – until I realized it was a single from much, much later in the band's career. But let's back up for a second. Kraftwerk are a German group, formed in Düsseldorf in 1970, who are widely considered one of the major innovators of what would eventually be known as electronic music. If you thought that Gary Numan's "Cars" sounded futuristic, I could only imagine the reactions of casual listeners of their Autobahn album. Their simple, repetitive compositions, replete with the simplest of melodies and some positively inane lyrics, seem so simple now, able to be done by any kid with a computer and music-making software. Yet the electronic instruments they used from album to album – including keyboards, synthesizers, vocoders, and drum machines – gave them a unique sound, the likes of which seem nearly unmatched in the 70s. I find that the apex of their work is found in their 1978 album Die Mensch-Maschine, which finds the perfect common ground between their weird, spacey aesthetic and the more melodic synthpop that was starting to gain momentum at the time. They released music into the 80s and all the way into the 21st century, and while the group has consistently remained terrific music-makers, the novelty of their style loses its initial sizzle once the real world forms a more and more intimate connection with computers, via technological advances and the internet. Still, there's no denying their being one step ahead of the curve in the early days of the electronic music age. And this is from where the context surrounding this particular single arises. By 1999, Kraftwerk had become less of an underground novelty and held more of a status of legendary music-makers, akin to Chuck Berry and The Beatles in their innovations. It didn't hurt that their "Tour de France" single was rereleased earlier the same year after being out of print for years, undoubtedly giving them a boost of popularity for a whole new generation of listeners. Moreover, "Expo 2000" was the first recording of new music from the group since 1986's Electric Café, which is exciting enough for existing fans alone. As the title and year of this single suggests, this single follows with the trend of discussion that arose throughout the year 1999, with anxieties that occurred over the fate of the world once the dates entered a new millennium. With a world now run by computers and a programming error that had the world's economy hanging by a string, it's only natural that some interesting art would arises from this brief, interesting time in our history. And thus, we get "Expo 2000". For a band that has always had such a vivid imagination of a world run by computers and technology, this song couldn't have come at a better time (well, except for today maybe, but I'll digress). As interesting as it should have been, however, this single is not. By '99, Kraftwerk had reached a level of infamy that had them imitated and even parodied countless times over, so maybe a brand-spanking-new single from the group was doomed for failure from the start. As the computer voice speaks signature empty phrases over a spacey synthesizer riff, it feels just so dull and uninspired, as if this was made by a kid with musical software and not infamous developers of a whole entire genre. Moreover, one of the best qualities about Kraftwerk is their seamless, seemingly miraculous ability to make the most organically beautiful tones and emotions come out of a bunch of cold, unfeeling machines. This is best heard in tracks such as "Neon Lights" or even "Computer Love" from their 1981 album Computerwelt. No emotion is to be found here, which I suppose is the point, but it doesn't make for anything particularly interesting to listen to. The one positive thing I can say about this track is that I really dig the main keyboard riff that drives this song along. The melodic line really sounds like something that could have come from Kraftwerk's best work of the late 70s and 80s. Overall, though, it's sad to say that I'm not too sure that a group such as Kraftwerk to exist to make new material into the 21st century. Their vision of a world run by unspeakable technological progressions seems so tied to the naive optimism of the second half of the 20th century, when people imagined that flying cars would become the norm once the year 2000 came around. As it stands, though, the technology of our world melded in much more effortlessly with society than anyone could have ever predicted, making any vision of further growth seem a lot less sexy in retrospect. Still, while I couldn't recommend this song to anyone, the band's material from the peak of their career is still undeniably beautiful with each and every listen. I doubt that any of these songs would date themselves into obscurity anytime soon. This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged 1990's, 1999, German, Kraftwerk, One Random Single a Day. Bookmark the permalink.
Tiritiri Matangi Island (220 ha) is 25 km north of Auckland City in the Hauraki Gulf. Pacific rats, or kiore, (Rattus exulans) were probably introduced to this island between 1100 and 1800 A.D. The impacts of Pacific rats on this ecosystem are not known, but from studies at other locations they were presumed to be detrimental to natural processes. Until 1984 the natural ecosystem was also degraded by removal of forest cover and pastoral farming. Restoration of the natural environment on this island began in 1984. Some 300,000 native trees have been planted and nine species of native bird translocated to the island. Pacific rats were removed in September 1993 with use of an aerial application of Talon 20P rodent bait. Specific actions were taken during this operation to protect identified potential non-target species where the population was considered at risk. Monitoring methods following the operation are described. There has been no rat sign found since the aerial operation. This entry was posted on 19 Apr 2005 at 06:02 by julia and is filed under Eradication.
Just a question about the stepper motor drivers. Are the ultimaker electronics running the stepper motor drivers in "voltage mode" or "current mode" ? Im not really an electronics guy, so have no idea about this. Current mode. The pots on the drivers adjust the amount of current. 5000rpm is very VERY high for steppers, not sure if those motors are up to that. But I think the electronics could manage it. Ok many thanks for your help Daid !
As New Mexico Junior College prepares to bring the men's track and field team back as a sport next year and host the NJCAA Outdoor National Championships in mid-May, what better time for NMJC to honor a pair of former Thunderbird track and field stars, Tom Cantrell and Wardell Gilbreath. When Cantrell and Gilbreath were nominated, New Mexico Junior College Athletic Director Deron Clark was hoping, but wasn't sure if either would be accepted. Cantrell ran track for NMJC for two seasons. During those two years, Cantrell won an individual national championship his freshman year in the mile relay while also setting a school record in the 440. As a sophomore, he was a member of the Thunderbirds first national championship. Cantrell anchored the mile relay team that clinched the T-Birds the national championship by one point. At NMJC's annual banquet, Cantrell was named Outstanding Track Athlete for the T-Birds. In 1980, Cantrell came back to NMJC where he coached the track team for seven years. Gilbreath, a sprinter, joined NMJC's track and field team in 1972 and ran for the T-Birds for two seasons. In the 1973 NJCAA Track & Field National Championships, Gilbreath set a record in the 220-yard dash, finishing in 20.6 seconds. Although the event is no longer run, Gilbreath's record time still stands. He also finished second in the 100-yard dash and took third in the mile relay. Gilbreath was also named a Junior College All-American. The Amarillo native became one of the first sprinters from NMJC to participate on multiple United States and World University track & field teams.
The UK's only Catalonian fusion restaurant sourcing and serving the highest quality artisan food from Spain and the UK. The Everyman is back after a two year redevelopment, bringing a host of food and drink offerings to the people of Liverpool. Bursting at the seams with hand-picked Thai bric-a-brac, Thai inspired cocktails and drinks will be served with a selection of authentic Thai snacks. Offering Thai and other authentic Asian dishes, with food prepared the traditional way. The Café & Sushi Bar at The Vincent Hotel breaks new ground. Start your day with a continental breakfast and later on indulge in a light lunch. Gusto Trattoria, situated on Southport's Lord Street offers modern style Italian cuisine in a contemporary, relaxed atmosphere.
The term "Orthorexia" literally translates to "a fixation on righteous eating." While Orthorexiais not a diagnosed mental illness, the concept has become popular, as many individuals with eating disorders struggle with Orthorexic tendencies. These may begin as a growing consciousness around pursuing greater health and wellness, yet over timecan lead to the further development of a more serious eating disorder. Another form of this fixation that often presents alongside Orthorexia is a fixation on "righteous exercise", which I will term Orthorexercise. To be clear, the term Orthorexiaor Orthorexercisedo not designate official eating disorder diagnoses. In 1996, Dr. Steven Bratman began using the term Orthorexia with patients that appeared to be fixated on "healthy" habits. As the "health and wellness" movement has gained traction over the last few decades, a growing number of diet and exercise plans have emerged, each claiming to provide various cures to our wellness woes. However, a great number of these movements have been less than helpful as doctors and health professionals have witnessed an increasing number of patients exhibiting disordered eating and exercise behaviors. Orthorexercise is the application of these rigid beliefs to the domain of exercise. It is different from compulsive over-exercise, which refers to the actual excessive exercise behaviors. Orthorexercise, is a broader concept that encompasses the beliefs and the behaviors involving "righteous" exercise. What characterizes Orthorexercise is the spiraling of behaviors, causing nutritional deficiencies, injuries, and a variety of negative health repercussions. In addition to the harmful physical side effects, those struggling with Orthorexerciseoften experience accompanying feelings of guilt, shame, anxiety, and depression when their actions are not in alignment with their rigid ideals. Deviating from the rigid nutritional limits or exercise regimen results in extreme psychological distress for the individual. They become trapped in a cycle whereby if they engage in the behaviors they harm themselves physically, and if they don't engage in them they harm themselves psychologically. This overwhelming obsession and rigidity around exercise can develop from a number of sources. For some, it may begin with a general motivation to develop a healthier lifestyle—either by cultivating a more balanced diet or more regular exercise regimen. In and of themselves, these dietary and exercise regimens aren't necessarily dangerous or "bad" for one's health. However, for some individuals, any sort of restriction—whether around food or exercise—can further develop into a variety of disordered eating behaviors. How far is too far? As of yet there are no specific criteria to indicate when someone has crossed the threshold into Orthorexia or Orthorexercise. But a commonsense rule of thumb is that when a person's priorities have shifted to the point where other sources of meaning and life enjoyment take a back seat to the maintenance of their regimen, they have gone too far. Also, when there are diminishing returns, when a person's eating or exercise pattern starts to cause physical deterioration instead of physical regeneration, that is also an indicator of the line being crossed. If you or someone you know may be experiencing any of these symptoms, or perhaps an underlying fear around food and exercise, feel free to reach out to us here at Cielo House. Or, if you find yourself with more questions around Orthorexercise or disordered eating, we would be happy to connect. Written by Matt Keck, MFT, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Cielo House Comprehensive Eating Disorder Treatment.
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Sie sind hier: Startseite → Research → Book series "Transcription" Since 2004, Prof. Dr. Sabine Sielke has been editing the series Transcription: Cultures – Concepts – Controversies for Peter Lang. The series is dedicated to publishing work that explores culture as cultures, interrogates concepts, methods, and theories, and intervenes in controversies about cultures and concepts. The term transcription acknowledges that all cultures engage in acts of translating and transforming performed, spoken, written, or digitalized languages, images, and sounds from one medium into another; it also refers, more specifically, to processes of encoding and transferring genetic information. The series focuses on, yet is not limited to, explorations of North American cultural practices and encourages dialogues between seemingly distant disciplines. New York, New York! Urban Spaces, Dreamscapes, Contested Territories. Ed. Sabine Sielke. In collaboration with Björn Bosserhoff. Transcription 8. Frankfurt: Lang, 2015. The Shadow of Torture: Debatin US Transgressions in Military Interventions, 1899-2008. By Katrin Dauenhauer. Transcription 7. Frankfurt: Lang, 2015. Beyond 9/11: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Twenty-First Century U.S. American Culture. Ed. Christian Kloeckner, Simone Knewitz, and Sabine Sielke. In collaboration with Björn Bosserhoff. Transcription 6. Frankfurt: Lang, 2013. Verschleierungstaktiken: Strategien von eingeschränkter Sichtbarkeit, Tarnung und Täuschung in Natur und Kultur. Ed. Anne-Rose Meyer and Sabine Sielke. Transcription 5. Frankfurt: Lang, 2011. Orient and Orientalisms in US-American Poetry and Poetics. Ed. Sabine Sielke and Christian Kloeckner. Transcription 4. Frankfurt: Lang, 2009. Getriebene Melancholiker: Helden - Körper - Action in Hollywood. By Nancy Shui-Yen Cheng. Transcription 3. Frankfurt: Lang, 2009. Populäre Ökologie: Zu Literatur und Geschichte der modernen Umweltbewegung in den USA. By Hannes Bergthaller. Transcription 2. Frankfurt: Lang, 2007. Gender Talks: Geschlechterforschung an der Universität Bonn. Ed. Sabine Sielke and Anke Ortlepp. In collaboration with Theresa Huber. Transcription 1. Frankfurt: Lang, 2006.
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Olive Garden to launch Monte Vista Crossings expansion Turlock could soon be home to a little Hospitaliano – and those famous never-ending breadsticks, soups, salads, and pastas – as the Olive Garden Italian restaurant considers expanding to the city's Monte Vista Crossings shopping center. "The Olive Garden is moving forward," said Steve Hale, a permit expeditor with the project. The new restaurant is planned for 2701 Countryside Dr., a currently vacant site just south of the existing Kohl's. Planning documents call for the construction of a new, freestanding Olive Garden restaurant, plus the related parking and landscaping. Hale expects the project will break ground this winter, opening about six months later. While opening is still a while off, Hale estimates that the restaurant will feature about 250 seats, and will employ about 25 people per shift. Founded in 1982 and part of Darden Restaurants, Inc. – owners of Red Lobster and four other restaurants – the Olive Garden operates more than 730 restaurants, claims more than 86,000 employees, and generates more than $3 billion in annual sales. Each restaurant averages $4.7 million in annual sales as the chain entertains more than 3.3 million guests each week. Currently, Darden Restaurants operates three Olive Gardens within 50 miles of Turlock – in Modesto, Tracy and Stockton. Restaurant start of Monte Vista Crossings expansion The development also marks the first phase of the planned Monte Vista Crossings South, an expansion to the existing shopping center which at one point was to include a new Walmart Supercenter – long since scrapped, following litigious council action to ban such superstores in 2004. "This is just the first piece of it to come in," said Adrienne Werner, a planner with the City of Turlock. Werner does not expect any problems with the Olive Garden project going forward, as the standalone development is slated for a previously-planned restaurant pad in Monte Vista Crossings South. That southern expansion – featuring a mix of retail and dining similar to the existing center –has already received development entitlements from the City of Turlock, issued when the shopping center was first approved. Walnut Creek-based Hall Equities Group, which owns the 140-acre Monte Vista Crossings, did not return calls for comment on this story. The group's website proclaims the south expansion "will include more nationally recognized retailers that will further establish Monte Vista Crossings as the top shopping destination in the region." To contact Alex Cantatore, e-mail [email protected] or call 634-9141 ext. 2005.
Booking.com checks in to new £100m Manchester HQ By Richard Hook2018-08-07T11:16:00 Booking.com is set to consolidate four of its offices into a new 222,000 sq ft global headquarters building at Allied London's St John's scheme in Manchester. The online travel giant has announced plans to invest £100m over the next decade into Manchester Goods Yard at Enterprise City in the new St John's Quarter, which it will use as a base to develop its transport business as well as relocating staff from other offices.
Though it's too bad they (apparently) didn't have a third group who received a placebo that they didn't know was a placebo, to compare the effect size. Edit: Here's the actual study. RolfAndreassen points out that its results may not actually be strong evidence for what is being claimed. See also this article by Steve Silberman. So what "the placebo effect" really means is "every random effect other than that of the active ingredient". It does not mean "the beneficial effects of taking a pill that you think is going to help even though it contains no active ingredient", even though that's the meaning implied by these articles. The linked article is different in an interesting way. The study referenced measured the difference between a "no treatment" group (i.e. no pill but the same interaction with doctors) and a group receiving treatment consisting of an avowedly inactive pill patients were told would help through "psychological effects". One problem I can see is that the instrument used to measure "effects" of the "placebo" is itself psychological: the IBS-GIS as far as I can tell is a questionnaire given to the patients. So quite possibly this study is replicating priming effects, not necessarily measuring actual difference in health outcomes. I agree with your skepticism about relying on self-reports for a measure. But what do you mean by, "priming effects"? Priming effects: see Priming and Contamination, and the wiki page on priming. I hope you mean disturbing in a good way, as in "I am committed to understanding the world, not finding evidence to support my view of how I want the world to look." I knowingly use the placebo effect on myself, relieving all sorts of things with ibuprofen. I figure the little bit of real pain relief the ibuprofen provides probably helps me to imagine myself better in other ways after I take it. Perhaps the placebo effect works even when you know it is a sugar pill in the same way that essentially all optical illusions work even though we know they are illusions. Placebo effect probably reflects some deep wiring in us, which would hardly be expected to go away just because we know about it. A possible defect in the study: it was based on people reporting improvement. That my knowing I took a fake pill might get me to report a fake improvement I don't think should be ruled out. I think I would like to see if Placebos can lower temperature in a fever, and compare the effectiveness of placebos when we tell you its a placebo and placebos given in all seriousness as an implied effective drug. An acquaintance regularly treats headaches by putting two aspirins in his shirt pocket. He is as bemused by this as anyone, but figures as long as the headache goes away, why should he actually consume the aspirin? I can't fault his reasoning, though I'll admit to finding it disturbing. I wonder how far he can take it. If he can't find aspirin, can he write "aspirin" on a piece of paper and put that in his pocket? Can he just imagine doing it? Or can he do absolutely nothing and have it still go away? Well it's obviously not homeopathy, since you can clearly distinguish between a piece of paper saying "homeopathic remedy" and a piece of paper saying "ordinary water". What they need to do is write "homeopathic remedy" on some paper, pulp it with clean paper in a 1/1,000,000 proportion, make recycled paper out of it, and give the patient some of that recycled paper. Without writing anything on it. I've wondered that myself, though I've never asked. I expect he could train himself to eliminate the headaches without the ritual, were he inclined to do so. Ibuprofen isn't exactly a trivial pain reliever; it's decidedly more effective than tylenol and about the same effectiveness as codeine. Codeine is almost always mixed with tylenol or another painkiller, and in its mixed form is more effective than pure codeine or ibuprofen. I meant that pure codeine is about as ibuprofen (not by weight, but by equivalent dosages) but it's not really a useful comparison because pure codeine is rarely prescribed. The effect size is 1.6 sigma; 80 people, 40 in each group, 24 versus 14 improvements. The null hypothesis is by no means ruled out. That's in addition to the double-blinding problems others have noted. I wish they had included a third group which received a placebo and was told it was real medicine. The study's not properly complete without one. I'm not particularly surprised by the results, but I'd be very surprised if the people who knowingly take a placebo do as well as the people who take a placebo believing it's real medicine. I wish they had included a third group which received a placebo and was told it was real medicine. That's pretty much what I meant by "... third group who received a placebo that they didn't know was a placebo".
Home > Big Impact > News Source: Pixabay/Pexels New High-Pressure Shower Conserves Water And Energy By Tessa Love There's nothing quite like a long, hot shower. But if you're an eco-warrior, you also probably know that indulging in one is not the greenest thing you could do for the planet. For example, a standard, eight-minute shower uses about nine to 10 liters of water per minute. During that time, just shy of 18 gallons of that water go to waste down the drain. On top of that, heating all that water takes its toll; hot water use accounts for about 25 percent of the average home's heating costs. In other words, it's wasteful and expensive to take long showers, but many of us still enjoy doing it. So is there an eco-friendly alternative that doesn't involve the "get in, get out" mentality? Thanks to recent innovation, there is an easy way to enjoy a relaxing shower while still being kind to the plant. Flow Loop is a new and improved shower made in Denmark that recirculates water for less waste and less energy use. The way it works is pretty simple. As you shower in a Flow Loop system, the warm water that would normally go down the drain is circulated back up into the shower head, essentially reusing it instead of losing it. Will the water be freezing? Interestingly, the difference in temperature by the time it recirculates is minor. By the time water from the shower head hits the floor, it only cools by about 5ºF. So when the water comes back around, Flow Loop adds in just a little more hot warm to maintain the temperature, resulting in about 1 liter of water per minute – or 10 times less than the average shower. Flow Loop team checking in at #TECHBBQ Simon says: Shower responsibly#cleantech #greentech #smartshowering pic.twitter.com/i9JOMAnAmN — Flow Loop (@flowloopworld) September 5, 2017 It gets better, too: When the water is recirculated from the bottom of the shower, it goes through a filtration system that Flow Loop claims makes the water even cleaner and safer than most tap water. First, it passes through a prefilter and self-cleaning microfilter, which ensure large and small particles (like hair, dirt, and skin cells) don't come back through the shower head. Next, it hits an ultrasonic descaler, which reduces limescale build up in the shower, followed by a UV filter that eliminates up to 99.99 percent of bacteria, micro organisms or viruses. This also helps give you a faster and more thorough shampooing. By the time the water recirculates back out of the shower head, it's crystal clear. Because the Flow Loop shower saves so much water, it also doesn't have to adhere to low-flow regulations, which restrict the power of shower heads to two gallons per minute in an effort to reduce water use. Flow Loop gives you four gallons a minute. So an addendum to that first statement: There's nothing like a long, hot, high-pressure shower. And with Flow Loop, you can get that guilt-free. #TrashTag Has Gone Viral, Encouraging People to Clean Up Litter 2019's List of the Dirty Dozen and Clean 15 Has Been Released Barbie Is Now a Wildlife Conservationist, Entomologist, and More
Home » Europe » Spain » Madrid » Royal Palace of Madrid Royal Palace of Madrid The Royal Palace of Madrid is the official residence of the Spanish Royal Family in the city of Madrid, but it is only used for state ceremonies. King Philip VI and the Royal Family do not reside in the palace, choosing instead the more modest Palace of Zarzuela on the outskirts of Madrid. The palace is located on the Bailén Street ("Bailén Street") in the western part of downtown Madrid, east of the Manzanares River, and is accessible from the Opera metro station. Several rooms in the palace are regularly open to the public except during state functions. An admission fee of € 11 is required. Some days it is free. The palace is located on the site of the 9th-century Alcázar ("Muslim-era fortress"), near the town of Magerit, constructed as an outpost by Muhammad I of Córdoba: 7 and inherited after 1036 by the independent Moorish Taifa of Toledo . After Madrid fell to King Alfonso VI of Castile in 1083, the edifice was only rarely used by the kings of Castile. In 1329, King Alfonso XI of Castile convened the courts of Madrid for the first time. King Philip II moved his court to Madrid in 1561. The old Alcazar was built on the 16th century. After it burned 24 December 1734, King Philip ordered the new palace built on the same site. Construction spanned the years 1738 to 1755 and followed by Berniniesque design by Filippo Juvarra and Giovanni Battista Sacchetti in cooperation with Ventura Rodríguez, Francesco Sabatini, and Martín Sarmiento. King Carlos III first occupied the new palace in 1764. The last monarch who lived continuously in the palace was King Alfonso XIII, although Manuel Azaña, president of the Second Republic, also inhabited it, making him the last head of state to the so. During that period the palace was known as "National Palace". There is still room next to the Royal Chapel, which is known by the name "Office of Azaña". The palace has 135,000 square meters (1,450,000 sq ft) of floor space and contains 3,418 rooms. It is the largest royal palace in Europe by floor area. The interior of the palace is notable for its wealth of art and the use of many types of fine materials in the construction and the decoration of its rooms. These include paintings by artists such as Caravaggio, Francisco de Goya, and Velázquez, and frescoes by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Juan de Flandes, Corrado Giaquinto, and Anton Raphael Mengs. Other collections of great historical and artistic importance preserved in the building include the Royal Armory of Madrid, porcelain, watches, furniture, silverware, and the world's only complete Stradivarius string quintet. Muhammad I, Umayyad Emir of Cordoba, between 860 and 880. After the Moors were driven out of Toledo in the 11th century, the castle retained its defensive function. Henry III of Castile added several towers. His son John II used it as a royal residence. However, during the War of the Castilian Succession (1476) the troops of Joanna the Beltraneja were besieged in the Alcázar, causing serious damage to the royal building. The only drawing of the castle from the Middle Ages is one made in 1534 by Cornelius Vermeyen. Emperor Charles V extended and renovated the castle in 1537, using the architects Alonso de Covarrubias and Luis de Vega. Philip II made Madrid his capital in 1561 and added a continued the renovations. Philip III added a long southern facade between 1610 and 1636. Philip V of Bourbon renovated the royal apartments in 1700. The Alcázar of the Habsburgs was austere in comparison to the Palace of Versailles where the new king spent his childhood and he began to series redesigns led by Teodoro Ardemans and René Carlier. On the other hand, the main rooms were redecorated in the style of French palaces by the Queen Maria Luisa of Savoy and the Princess of Ursins. On Christmas Eve 1734, the Alcazar was destroyed by fire in the rooms of the French painter Jean Ranc. It was not detected quickly, due to the warning bells being confused with the call to mass. For fear of looting, the doors of the building remained closed, hampering rescue efforts. Many works of art were lost, such as the Expulsion of the Moors, by Diego Velázquez. Others, such as Las Meninas, were rescued by tossing them out the windows. Fortunately, many pieces were saved because the king ordered that much of his collection moved to the Buen Retiro Palace shortly before the blaze. This fire lasted four days and completely destroyed the old Alcazar, whose last walls were finally demolished in 1738. Filippo Juvarra oversaw work on the new palace. The Italian architect devised a lavish project of enormous proportions inspired by Bernini's plans for Versailles. This plan was not realized due to Juvarra's untimely death in March 1736. His disciple, Giambattista Sacchetti also known as Juan Bautista Sacchetti or Giovanni Battista Sacchetti, was chosen to continue the work of his mentor. I have designed the structure around a large square courtyard and solved the sightline problems by creating projecting wings. In 1760, Charles III called upon Sicilian Francesco Sabatini, a Neoclassical architect to enlarge the building. The original idea was to frame the Square of the Armory with a series of galleries and arcades which would accommodate the various dependencies and the construction of two wings around the same square. Only the extension of the southeast tower known as that of San Gil was completed. Sabatini also planned to extend the north side with a large facade that echoed the style of the building and included three square courtyards in size somewhat smaller than the large central courtyard. Work on this expansion started quickly but was soon interrupted, leaving the foundations buried under a platform on which the royal stables were later built. These were demolished in the 20th century and replaced by the Sabatini Gardens. Charles III first occupied the palace in 1764. Ferdinand VII, who spent many years imprisoned in the Château de Valençay, began the most thorough renovation of the palace in the 19th century. The aim of this redesign was to turn the old-fashioned Italian style building into a modern French-style palace. However, his grandson Alfonso XII proposed to turn the palace into a Victorian style residence. The plans were designed by the architect Jose Segundo de Lema and consisted of remodeling several rooms, replacing marble floors with parquet and the adding of period furniture. The restorations made during the twentieth century repaired damages during the Civil Wars in Spain by repairing or reinstalling decoration and decorative trim, replacing damaged walls with faithful reproductions of the original. CategoriesEurope, Madrid, Spain Tagsmadrid, Royal Palace, Royal Palace of Madrid, Spain Previous PostPrevious Museum Sorolla Next PostNext Plaza Mayor
Home » About Us » Our Doctors » Dr David Abi-Hanna Dr David Abi-Hanna MBBS, FRACP, BSc(Med), PhD Dr David Abi-Hanna is a Sydney trained consultant gastroenterologist with a major interest and expertise in general and advanced endoscopy. Dr Abi-Hanna's medical education was commenced at the University of New South Wales, Randwick and was completed in 1989. Whilst undertaking his medical studies, Dr Abi-Hanna was involved in scientific research which resulted in the awarding of a Bachelor of Medical Science and after subsequent further research, the award of a PhD in the field of Immunology. His training in General Medicine was undertaken at the Prince Of Wales Hospital followed by advanced training in the specialty of Gastroenterology at Prince of Wales and then Westmead Hospital. He completed his specialty training and was awarded Fellow ship of The Royal Australasian College of Physicians in 1997 (FRACP). Following this period Dr Abi-Hanna completed his qualifications in Gastroscopy, Colonoscopy and ERCP. In 2008 he engaged in an overseas sabbatical gaining training and expertise in the procedure of endoscopic ultrasound (EUS). Dr Abi-Hanna is dedicated to providing best outcomes to his patients and practices exclusively in the Liverpool area. He is the Head of Endoscopy at Liverpool Hospital and the Chairman of the Conjoint Committee; a national body responsible for certification of training in endoscopic procedures. He also sits on the Medical Advisory Council of Liverpool Day Surgery. At Liverpool Day Surgery, Dr Abi-Hanna performs Gastroscopy and Colonoscopy with a selected number of therapeutic procedures, such as oesophageal dilation and polypectomy. Patients requiring more complex procedures are dealt with promptly via the endoscopy suite at Liverpool Hospital. If you would like to arrange a consultation with Dr Abi-Hanna, his main medical practice is located at 171 Bigge Street Liverpool and all appointments and enquiries are handled via this office by calling P: 02 98228133. Consultations are always arranged prior to any procedure being undertaken if a procedure is considered necessary. 171 Bigge Street, Liverpool NSW 2170
And we know this is O.K. with us, because we do nothing to stop it. I wonder how the white farmers got possession of the land in South Africa in the first place. British and Dutch colonizers took the land by using unjust laws, brutality and forced removal similar to American Indians removal from their land. Needless to say in an African country that percentage of control is kinda sorta unacceptable. Redistribution is obvious. I do hope that this issue is handled with as little bloodshed as possible, and that the Whites comply or find shelter elsewhere. Prayers are being sent for sure.
1987 KB är en asteroid i huvudbältet, som upptäcktes 23 maj 1987 av Campinas-observatoriet. Den har den diameter på ungefär 10 kilometer. Referenser Huvudbältesasteroider Ej namngivna småplaneter Astronomiska upptäckter av Campinas-observatoriet Astronomiska upptäckter 1987
Is Our Parish Renovation Required to Follow the Guidelines in "Environment and Art in Catholic Worship?" Karl Keating • Our parish church is about to undergo "renovation." We've had "experts" come to the parish to "explain" to us that all the changes are mandated by a document called Environment and Art in Catholic Worship. Do we have to follow this document? No, because it has no official force, at least on a national level. (It is possible that an individual bishop may declare it to be the controlling document in his own diocese.) Environment and Art in Catholic Worship was prepared for the bishops' committee on the liturgy. It passed a vote in that committee but never was submitted to the entire body of bishops for their vote, presumably because its backers knew that the majority would turn it down. It then proceeded into samizdat publication. Some versions come not just with text but with photographs purportedly showing the kinds of renovations intended by the text. As architecturally misguided as the text may be-everything is in terms of modernist church architecture, none in classical-the photographs are worse. An especially amusing one shows a "presider's chair," seemingly fashioned out of concrete, so pretentious that a Roman emperor could have used it. Such a chair would tend to focus the congregation's attention during Mass on the priest as a man, not on the sacred action at the altar-precisely the opposite of what such "renovations" are supposed to accomplish. The sorriest thing about the photographs (and by inference the text) is that the images look so dated, inevitably identified with 1960s architecture. There is no sense of timelessness. It would be hard to imagine any of the illustrated churches seeming anything but passe to worshipers at the turn of the millennium.
lørdag 16. oktober 2021 Why China's climate policy matters to us all China's carbon emissions are vast and growing, dwarfing those of other countries. Experts agree that without big reductions in China's emissions, the world cannot win the fight against climate change. China's President Xi Jinping has said his country will aim for its emissions to reach their highest point before 2030 and for carbon neutrality to be achieved by 2060. But he has not said how China will achieve this extremely ambitious goal. While all countries face problems getting their emissions down, China is facing the biggest challenge. Per person, China's emissions are about half those of the US, but its huge 1.4 billion population and explosive economic growth have pushed it way ahead of any other country in its overall emissions. China became the world's largest emitter of carbon dioxide in 2006 and is now responsible for more than a quarter of the world's overall greenhouse gas emissions. It is expected to come under intense scrutiny at the COP26 global climate summit in November over its commitments to reduce these. Along with all the other signatories to the Paris Agreement in 2015, China agreed to make changes to try to keep global warming at 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, and "well below" 2C.
In Oregon an estimated 122 students graduate from nutrition schools every year. If you too are interested in studying nutrition, Oregon has 4 nutrition schools from which you can choose. You can expect to pay an average of $5,330 per year in tuition for a degree in nutrition in Oregon state. Oregon State University is the largest nutrition school in the state of Oregon, based on number of students. It is located in Corvallis. In 2009, a reported 63 students graduated with a nutrition degree from Oregon State University. This was 52% of the total nutrition graduates in Oregon for that year. If you decide to attend Oregon State University, you can expect to pay approximately $6,727 per year to earn your degree in nutrition. A majority of those with an education in nutrition pursue a career as a nutritionist. If after graduation, you are planning on working in Oregon, it is important to know that the job outlook for nutrition graduates in the state is good. In Oregon, there are currently about 560 nutritionists. And the government projects that this number will increase by 19%, or to 660 nutritionists by the year 2018. If you work as a nutritionist in Oregon, your yearly salary can range from less than $36,772 to more than $74,150. Nutritionists in Oregon earn a median yearly salary of $59,040.
10 movies we can't wait to see in 2019, from 'Captain Marvel' to 'Aladdin' Sure, 'Avengers 4' and 'Star Wars' are coming, but here are 10 more movies we can't wait to see in 2019, from 'Dumbo' and 'Shazam!' to 'John Wick 3.' 10 movies we can't wait to see in 2019, from 'Captain Marvel' to 'Aladdin' Sure, 'Avengers 4' and 'Star Wars' are coming, but here are 10 more movies we can't wait to see in 2019, from 'Dumbo' and 'Shazam!' to 'John Wick 3.' Check out this story on visaliatimesdelta.com: https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2019/01/03/10-movies-we-cant-wait-see-2019-aladdin-godzilla-captain-marvel/2405746002/ Brian Truitt, USA TODAY Published 7:39 a.m. PT Jan. 3, 2019 \| Updated 4:49 p.m. PT Jan. 3, 2019 Brie Larson's space warrior has to unlock mysteries of her past in the Marvel superhero adventure "Captain Marvel."(Photo: CHUCK ZLOTNICK) The next year is going to be spent talking a lot about "Avengers: Endgame" in April, "Toy Story 4" in June and "Star Wars: Episode IX" in December. Just give us the tickets already because we're beyond stoked. But there are many more intriguing entries coming in 2019, from revamped Disney classics and awesome assassins to the return of one lovable monstrous lizard and Marvel's first headlining superheroine. Here are exclusive looks at the 10 movies we can't wait to see in the months ahead: 1. 'Captain Marvel' (March 8) Before Brie Larson's energy-blasting heroine plays a role in "Endgame," Carol Danvers gets a proper introduction as the fighter pilot/space warrior in a 1990s-era solo adventure. "It's so cool to play a superhero wearing a Nine Inch Nails T-shirt, ripped jeans and Doc Martens," Larson says. A protagonist who needs to figure out her own mysterious backstory (plus fight shapeshifting Skrulls), Carol's "not this perfect ideal of a woman. She's my perfect ideal because she's flawed and she owns those and learns to work with them, and is making mistakes over the course of this movie finding herself – figuring out her past, but also discovering her own strength and power." Winston Duke (top), Lupita Nyong'o and Evan Alex star as family members fighting off their malevolent doppelgangers in the horror film "Us." (Photo: CLAUDETTE BARIUS) 2. 'Us' (March 15) "Get Out" writer/director Jordan Peele promises a "scarier" experience with his new horror film, which follows a family (Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Shahadi Wright Joseph and Evan Alex) tormented by mysterious, creepy versions of themselves during a beach getaway. "As a country that seems obsessed with the idea of the outsider coming to take what's ours, it felt appropriate to tell a story where the enemies have our face and the invader is not what we expect or tend to fear," Peele says, adding that he's paying homage to all his heroes: "Hitchcock, Spielberg, Kubrick – everybody's in there in some way." Former circus star Holt Farrier (Colin Farrell, left) and his children Milly (Nico Parker) and Joe (Finley Hobbins) care for a very special newborn elephant in Tim Burton's "Dumbo." (Photo: DISNEY) 3. 'Dumbo' (March 29) In Tim Burton's live-action take on the Disney classic, the flying elephant in the title has a way of bringing out the fundamental truth of every human character. In the case of Holt Farrier (Colin Farrell), the horse showman who lost both his wife and left arm while fighting in World War I, he gets his life back on track taking care of newborn Dumbo with his two children. The little circus elephant awakens Holt "as a man who can trust in sweetness and who doesn't just see the world through the lens of the violence and the inhumanity that he observed while he was away at the war," Farrell says. "That's a huge thing." The title teen-turned-superhero (Zachary Levi, right) learns his new powers and deals with bad guys like Dr. Sivana (Mark Strong) in "Shazam!" (Photo: WARNER BROS.) 4. 'Shazam!' (April 5) The main man of DC's comedic superhero movie is right in star Zachary Levi's wheelhouse. "I've always been drawn to characters with big hearts, or they're drawn to me," says Levi, who plays the musclebound result when 14-year-old Billy Batson (Asher Angel) utters the magic word "Shazam!" Like "Big" meets "Superman," the movie taps into universal childhood imagination. "At some point, we all thought, 'If I just believe hard enough, then I can fly or run across the water or read somebody's thoughts.' This is a kid getting to live out those dreams. It's a tale as old as time but of all the superhero movies, it has yet to be told." David Harbour (center) brandishes the big guns and bigger Right Hand of Doom as the title superhero of "Hellboy." (Photo: MARK ROGERS) 5. 'Hellboy' (April 12) The half-demon, all-sarcastic superhero gets a reboot with David Harbour (replacing Ron Perlman in the role) wearing cut-off horns and the Right Hand of Doom as Hellboy battles supernatural threats like the deadly Blood Queen (Milla Jovovich) while also trying to fit into society. "I love that he is sort of destined to bring about the apocalypse, and yet he himself just wants to be, like, a good guy," Harbour says. The new film leans into blood, guts and a morally complicated hero. "Hellboy is fundamentally a sweet-hearted guy but also a big old killer, just whacking people. We explore the horror of what it must be like to be from hell and to struggle to find your place among human beings." Keanu Reeves' semi-retired assassin needs serious help when a global community of killers is out to get him in "John Wick: Chapter 3." (Photo: LIONSGATE) 6. 'John Wick: Chapter 3' (May 17) Keanu Reeves' semi-retired assassin just can't catch a break, with a global community of killers out to get him as Wick travels from New York to Morocco and back, seeking any help he can find to survive. "I'm a big fan of Joseph Campbell's mythologies of the hero and what he would have defined as the theater of pain, or sometimes we call it 'The Die Hard Conundrum': We just to like to beat the (stuffing) out of our heroes," director Chad Stahelski says, promising more of Wick's origins will be revealed. "If you choose that kind of lifestyle, you're going to be pretty beat up. So we like John Wick to suffer and think Keanu loves for John Wick to suffer, too." Naomi Scott is the beautiful and self-determined Princess Jasmine in the new live-action adaptation of Disney's "Aladdin." (Photo: DANIEL SMITH) 7. 'Aladdin' (May 24) Guy Ritchie's musical redo is a "bigger and brighter" take on the Disney cartoon, says Naomi Scott, who herself is adding dimension to Princess Jasmine by emphasizing the strength and intelligence of the iconic character she loved growing up. Jasmine's arc obviously involves falling for street rat Aladdin (Mena Massoud): "They're the perfect partnership because they both need each other and teach each other." But it's also about "finding her voice" and wanting the best for the people of Agrabah. "She gradually finds the courage to speak out against injustice and that's kind of her objective from the start of the movie: 'I see these people, I love them.' " The three-headed golden dragon Ghidorah returns to the big screen, along with other giant creatures like Rodan and Mothra, to fight for supremacy in "Godzilla: King of the Monsters." (Photo: WARNER BROS.) 8. 'Godzilla: King of the Monsters' (May 31) When he was 4, director Michael Dougherty says his primary "security blanket" was a Godzilla toy. "I would take him to church. That's how much I loved him." And with the new sequel, he's putting the "god" in the "Godzilla" franchise, bringing back the likes of three-headed golden dragon Ghidorah and winged moth Mothra from the old Japanese monster films. In the movie's world, "they're not just big dumb animals. They were worshipped back in the day," Dougherty says. The titanic creatures once co-existed with humans, yet when they and Godzilla rise once again to find out who truly rules in "King," that understanding between man and monster has been forgotten. "There's a fantastical element that comes into that. It's not just pure science fiction." Taron Egerton wears a variety of Elton John's flamboyant looks playing the pop legend in the musical fantasy "Rocketman." (Photo: DAVID APPLEBY) 9. 'Rocketman' (May 31) Taron Egerton truly embraced all things Elton John while filming the musical fantasy inspired by the pop legend's life from the late 1950s to the end of the '80s, singing about a dozen of his most famous numbers and wearing a wide variety of ultra-flamboyant looks. "I wear a Queen Elizabeth I costume at one point, that was a lot of fun. There's a lot of hot pants and not much else. It was a baptism of fire, really," Egerton says. As much as it's based in reality, he adds, "Rocketman" also utilizes heightened fantasy elements to make the story "magical, kind of trippy, a bit otherworldly and quite dark." Elisabeth Moss, Tiffany Haddish and Melissa McCarthy star as a trio of women who take over the Irish mob in Hell's Kitchen in the crime drama "The Kitchen." (Photo: ALISON COHEN ROSA) 10. 'The Kitchen' (Sept. 20) In the 1970s-set crime drama, Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish and Elisabeth Moss play wives who take over the Irish mob in Hell's Kitchen when their husbands are nabbed by the FBI. Putting women in positions they're not normally found became a theme, from its comedic actresses to a female director making her debut in a male-dominated genre. "Don't underestimate people" was the main idea for Andrea Berloff, adding that "Thelma & Louise" proved influential with "two really tough women who are 'criminals' and yet we love them." Berloff was "raised and reared" on old mob movies, "so they're in there somewhere, but I really wanted to find my own voice in my own way." Exclusive new photos from 2019's must-see movies A host of new movies arrive in 2019, from big-budget treasures to smaller delights, including a fresh adaptation of Disney's "Aladdin" featuring Naomi Scott as the beautiful and self-determined Princess Jasmine. DANIEL SMITH One year after her husband's untimely death, a widow (Katherine Waterston) is spurred to find out what happened and the truth of his dark past in the thriller "State Like Sleep" (in theaters Jan. 4). SABRINA LANTOS Mr. Glass (Samuel L. Jackson, left) is fascinated by the multiple personalities of fellow supervillain inmate Kevin Crumb (James McAvoy) in M. Night Shyamalan's "Glass" (Jan. 18). JESSICA KOURKOUNIS A group of teens (including Tom Taylor and Rhianna Dorris) become knights to fight an evil enchantress in a new take on Arthurian legend, "The Kid Who Would Be King" (Jan. 25). KERRY BROWN A world-renowned thief (Michael Caine, right) rounds up a band of misfit criminals (including Charlie Cox) to pull off Britain's biggest bank heist in "King of Thieves" (Jan. 25). JACK ENGLISH A fishing boat captain (Matthew McConaughey) has his life upended by his ex-wife (Anne Hathaway) and her violent new husband (Jason Clarke) in the thriller "Serenity" (Jan. 25). AVIRON PICTURES A man (Christopher Abbott) wanting to purge his dark past meets a twisted woman (Mia Wasikowska) in the psycho-thriller love story "Piercing" (Feb. 1). UNIVERSAL PICTURES CONTENT GROUP Zawe Ashton (left) and Jake Gyllenhaal star in Dan Gilroy's Netflix thriller set in L.A.'s contemporary art scene, "Velvet Buzzsaw" (Feb. 1). CLAUDETTE BARIUS/NETFLIX A family man (Liam Neeson, with Emmy Rossum) turns icy vigilante after his son is murdered in the action thriller "Cold Pursuit" (Feb. 8). DOANE GREGORY In the thriller "Everybody Knows" (Feb. 8), Javier Bardem stars as a Spanish man whose friend (Penelope Cruz) returns for a wedding where her daughter is kidnapped. Teresa Isasi/FOCUS Rory Culkin (with Sky Ferreira) plays a teenager who starts a Norwegian black metal band in the 1980s in the drama "Lords of Chaos" (Feb. 8). GUNPOWDER & SKY Taylor Schilling plays a mom who worries that her boy (Jackson Robert Scott) might be possessed in "The Prodigy" (Feb. 8). RAFY Sam Elliott stars as a World War II veteran who, decades after assassinating Adolf Hitler, is tasked by the government to hunt down Bigfoot in "The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then The Bigfoot" (Feb. 8). RLJE FILMS After waking up in a future world with no memories, cyborg heroine Alita (Rosa Salazar, with Keean Johnson) tries to find freedom in the sci-fi action film "Alita: Battle Angel" (Feb. 14). 20TH CENTURY FOX Dwayne Johnson (left) stars as himself and Vince Vaughn is a pro-wrestling talent scout in the comedy/drama "Fighting With My Family" (Feb. 14), about two British siblings trying to break into the WWE. ROBERT VIGLASKY/MGM College student Tree Gelbman (Jessica Rothe) gets stuck in a time loop yet again, this time to catch a new serial killer, in the horror sequel "Happy Death Day 2 U" (Feb. 14). UNIVERSAL STUDIOS Hiccup (voiced by Jay Baruchel) and his Night Fury dragon pal Toothless embark an epic final adventure in the animated fantasy "How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World" (Feb. 22). DREAMWORKS ANIMATION Chiwetel Ejiofor (left) writes, directs and stars in Netflix's "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" (March 1), about a teen (Maxwell Simba) in Malawai who invents a way to save his family and village from famine. NETFLIX Seana Kerslake stars as a mom who fears the worst when her son disappears and then returns seeming unlike himself in the supernatural thriller "The Hole in the Ground" (March 1). A24/DIRECTV Tyler Perry puts on the wig and women's clothing as his irascible grandmother character Madea in the comedy "A Madea Family Funeral" (March 1). CHIP BERGMAN Brie Larson's space warrior has to unlock mysteries of her past in her solo superhero adventure "Captain Marvel" (March 8) before playing a role in "Avengers: Endgame" (April 26). CHUCK ZLOTNICK A couple of tech upstarts (Alexander Skarsgard, center, and Jesse Eisenberg) compete for fiber-optic supremacy against their old boss (Salma Hayek) in "The Hummingbird Project" (March 15). THE ORCHARD Former Special Forces operatives (Garrett Hedlund, from left, Oscar Isaac, Ben Affleck, Charlie Hunnam and Pedro Pascal) plan a daring South American heist in Netflix's "Triple Frontier" (March 15). MELINDA SUE GORDON Winston Duke (top), Lupita Nyong'o and Evan Alex star as family members fighting off their malevolent doppelgangers in the horror film "Us" (March 15). CLAUDETTE BARIUS A criminal former soldier (Joel Kinnaman, right) works with FBI agents (Clive Owen and Rosamund Pike) to take down a New York crime boss in "The Informer" (March 22). AVIRON PICTURES Bernadette Fox (Cate Blanchett) goes missing from an idyllic life and her family has to solve the mystery of her disappearance in Richard Linklater's "Where'd You Go, Bernadette" (March 22). WILSON WEBB/ANNAPURNA PICTURES Former circus star Holt Farrier (Colin Farrell, left) and his children Milly (Nico Parker) and Joe (Finley Hobbins) care for a very special newborn elephant in Tim Burton's "Dumbo" (March 29). DISNEY Gugu Mbatha-Raw (right) stars as a woman who learns she has supernatural powers and reconnects with her mom (Lorraine Toussaint) while on the run in the thriller "Fast Color" (March 29). JACOB YAKOB Woody Harrelson (far left), Kevin Costner and Thomas Mann are lawmen hunting down Bonnie and Clyde in Netflix's "Highwaymen" (March 29). MERRICK MORTON/NETFLIX Kristen Stewart stars a young woman who spends years as the public persona of a literary figure created by her sister-in-law in "J.T. LeRoy" (March 29). ALLEN FRASER Emilio Estevez (center, with Christian Slater) directs and stars in "The Public" (spring 2019), about the conflict between patrons and officials stuck in a Cincinnati library during a nasty arctic blast. BRIAN DOUGLAS Pregnant with Roman Polanski's child, actress Sharon Tate (Hilary Duff) is plagued by strange visions of her imminent death in "The Haunting of Sharon Tate" (April 5). SABAN FILMS The title teen-turned-superhero (Zachary Levi, right) learns his new powers and deals with bad guys like Dr. Sivana (Mark Strong) in "Shazam!" (April 5). WARNER BROS. Chrissy Metz stars as a mother who keeps hope alive after her adopted son falls into an icy lake in the inspirational drama "Breakthrough" (April 12). ALLEN FRASER David Harbour (center) brandishes the big guns and bigger Right Hand of Doom as the title superhero of "Hellboy" (April 12). MARK ROGERS Anne Hathaway (left) and Rebel Wilson play con women Josephine Chesterfield and Penny Rust respectively in the "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" remake "The Hustle" (May 10). CHRISTIAN BLACK/MGM Keanu Reeves' semi-retired assassin needs serious help when a global community of killers is out to get him in "John Wick: Chapter 3" (May 17). LIONSGATE Mena Massoud plays the "street rat" title character who rubs a lamp and makes friends with an entertaining genie in Guy Ritchie's live-action "Aladdin" (May 24). DISNEY The three-headed golden dragon Ghidorah returns to the big screen, alongside Rodan and Mothra, to fight for supremacy in "Godzilla: King of the Monsters" (May 31). WARNER BROS. Taron Egerton wears a variety of Elton John's flamboyant looks playing the pop legend in the musical fantasy "Rocketman" (May 31). DAVID APPLEBY Powerful telekinetic Jean Grey (Sophie Turner) becomes a pawn in a cosmic conflict when her abilities grow stronger and more unstable in the X-Men film "Dark Phoenix" (June 7). DOANE GREGORY High-strung bunny Snowball (voiced by Kevin Hart, left) makes friends with a Shih Tzu named Daisy (Tiffany Haddish) in the animal-filled animated sequel "The Secret Life of Pets 2" (June 7). ILLUMINATION/UNIVERSAL Em (Tessa Thompson) and H (Chris Hemsworth) are part of a new generation of agents protecting the world from alien threats in "Men in Black: International" (June 14). GILES KEYTE Elisabeth Moss, Tiffany Haddish and Melissa McCarthy star as a trio of women who take over the Irish mob in Hell's Kitchen in the crime drama "The Kitchen" (Sept. 20). ALISON COHEN ROSA Honor Swinton Byrne (daughter of Tilda) is a film student and Tom Burke is her untrustworthy love interest in the upcoming Sundance drama "The Souvenir" (2019). 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Exclusive to OpEd News: OpEdNews Op Eds 9/2/2011 at 9:34 AM EDT H3'ed 9/2/11 How Real is the Threat from Islamic Terrorism in the U.S.? By Richard Clark (Page 1 of 1 pages) 7 comments (108 fans) Statistically, your chances of dying from a bee sting or a lightning strike are much greater than your chances of dying in a terrorist attack in America. The anthrax attack and the Fort Hood shooting had nothing to do with foreign terrorists. The shoe bomber and the underwear bomber were not attacks in the US. I'll give you the Times Square bombing, even though it was such an utterly incompetent failure that it's difficult to believe that it was actually meant to succeed. I mean, really, what kind of moron thinks that a large firecracker will blow up a propane tank? If they actually had meant to kill people it would have been ten times easier and almost foolproof to just fill a Ryder truck with drums of gasoline, stop it in one of the tunnels at rush hour, and torch it. The anthrax attacks, in particular, were traced to U.S. scientists at Fort Detrick, MD who were viciously anti-Muslim. These attacks had absolutely nothing to do with Al Qaida, and everything to do with causing enough hysteria to enable the administration's plans to repeal the Bill of Rights piecemeal without anyone daring to protest. Blaming these attacks on Muslim terrorists is simply the worst kind of disinformation, and this is no longer even controversial. The Trick of the Sociopath's Trade: Make Us Believe that Evil Comes from Others The influence of psychopaths/sociopaths and other deviants isn't just one of many influences working on society, but, under the appropriate circumstances, can be the primary influence that shapes the way we live, what we think, and how we judge what is going on around us. When you understand the true nature of that influence, i.e. that it is conscienceless, emotionless, selfish, cold and calculating, and devoid of any moral or ethical standards, you are horrified. But at the same time everything suddenly begins to makes sense. Our society is ever more soulless because the people who lead it and who set the example are soulless -- they literally have no conscience. And when you come to understand that the reins of political and economic power are in the hands of people who have no conscience, who have no capacity for empathy, it opens up a completely new way of looking at what we call "evil.". Evil is no longer, then, only a moral issue; it can now be analyzed and understood scientifically. When psychopaths are the policy makers in government and the CEOs of big business, the way they think and reason -- their 'morality' -- gradually becomes the common culture and 'morality' of the population over which they preside. When this happens, the mind of the population is infected in the way a pathogen infects a physical body. The only way to protect ourselves against this pathological thinking is to inoculate ourselves against it, and that is done by learning as much as possible about the nature of psychopathy and its culturally induced influence on us. Essentially, this particular 'disease' thrives especially well in an environment where its very existence is denied or ignored, and where this denial is planned and deliberate. Psychopathy and its second cousin, narcissism, is an adaptive life strategy that has become a road to success in American society, and thus has spread quickly throughout our population. What is more, as a consequence of a society that is adaptive for psychopathy, many individuals who are NOT genetic psychopaths have similarly adapted, becoming "effective" psychopaths, or "secondary sociopaths." 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ITS NOT OVER TILL IT'S OVER' By Mwangi Ndegwa "Many of life's failures are people who didn't realize how close they were to success before they gave up." Thomas Edison. Team sports are very competitive and every... By Mwangi Ndegwa June 18, 2019 By Mwangi Ndegwa "Many of life's failures are people who didn't realize how close they were to success before they gave up." Thomas Edison. Team sports are very competitive and every single second counts. Many tournaments have been won at the death; at the very last minute of the game. Dan was a member if his college's rugby sevens team. The sevens version of rugby is very physical, fast and game times are shorter than the fifteens version so every single second counts, every single move is very important. Dan was given the tough task of facing the defence line of the opposing team and the responsibility of getting the tries for his team, The Warriors, rested on his shoulders. The opposing team, The Mean Giants were the defending champions and every team dreaded meeting them. This was the final and all the odds were heavily stacked against Dan's team. To get to the final was no mean feat because apart from the Warriors, all other teams in the tournament were former winners. The Mean Giants had the best players in every single position and, as their name suggests, these players were huge bodied and very aggressive. The hooter went and the teams got on to the pitch. Within the first minute, the Mean Giants skipper split through the defence of The Warriors and got his team the first try. Smelling blood, The Giants kept pushing and in the fifth minute, got the second try. At the end of the first half, it became clear that The Giants were on course to retain their title. Warriors had not given much in resistance and at the restart, everyone expected The Giants to continue from where they had left off. However, during the break, The Warriors coach gave his charges a pep talk which inspired them to fight on. He managed to convince them that despite the odds being against them, despite them facing the defending champions, they had the ability and capability of turning the game and winning it. This brought in some motivation into The Warriors hearts and minds and all was evident from the restart. They were defending well and their tackles were well timed and their efforts paid off when Dan's team mate offloaded the ball to him, he managed to skip through two defenders and give his team their first try. They continued pushing and in the eighth minute, (which marks the end of the half), Dan won his team a second try. At the end of regulation time, the teams were tied two all. The winner had to be found so the rules stipulated that they would continue until sudden death. This basically means that the team that scores first is declared the winner. The Mean Giants were not ready to relinquish the title so they applied every single ounce they had of experience and it looked on course to achieving it. The Warriors had one secret; self belief. They knew that although they were the underdogs, they had an equal chance. All they needed was to keep their cool and focus. The Giants were riding on their celebrity status but The Warriors knew that even the strongest wall had some weakness however minor. Dan had already seen the weakness. The Giants were using their huge body build to intimidate the seemingly small bodied Warriors. This turned out to be their main undoing because Dan was small but very sleek and agile and when he received the ball at the half line, he utilized that weak link and before The Giants could stop him, touched down to give his team a win and the title. The jubilation could be heard throughout the stadium because the thorn in the flesh of all the rugby teams had been brought crashing down by the minnows. I believe that many of us have found ourselves in such a situation and the breakthrough point is usually the toughest. That point when you are almost getting to the finishing line, when you can see the tape, that's when energy fails you. You try to push but your physical and mental legs just give way and many collapse right at the finishing point. It might be your studies, relationship, business or even social life. You find that every side you turn to, the odds are firmly stacked against you. Sometimes even the bus fare or just a cup of tea becomes a struggle. At this point, the most viable option is giving up. So, allow me to encourage you that as long as you are still breathing, there is hope. As long as the referee has not blown the final whistle, the chance of winning is still there. So keeping putting one foot in front of the other and before you know it, you will have conquered what seemed insurmountable. Keep fighting. For, it's not over until it's over. To read more posts by Mwangi, click HERE Mwangi Ndegwa Transformational Tuesday 'NOT ALL BATTLES ARE WORTH FIGHTING' By Mercy Karumba 'STOP DRILLING THE HOLE OR WE SHALL BOTH SINK!' By Mercy Karumba
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Q: Best way to level tops of a grid of screws in concrete floor I have a large room (roughly 30' x 50') that needs a screed laying over crumbly concrete revealed by pulling up old wooden boards. I was quoted $ 30,000 (or the UK equivalent) to drill up and replace the old concrete; but, although that would certainly be the best and fastest option, I need that money for other renovations at the rambling place I bought! So I have decided to lay new screed by first planting a 3' by 3' square grid of screws across the floor, levelling the tops of all these relative to each other, laying lines of concrete between each pair of screws levelling the concrete against the tops, then pouring screed into all the squares formed by the concrete lines, and finally grinding and polishing the resulting surface flat. (The resulting pattern doesn't matter, as there will be a carpet over it.) Obviously it is important to ensure as best I can that the tops of all the screws are in the same horizontal plane, and to do this I will be using a six foot spirit level to level adjacent pairs of screws relative to each other with a small laser spirit level taped to the top like a gun sight, sighting a red spot on a wall. But the question then arises of what from a practical standpoint is the best order or procedure this should be done to minimize the risk of either level "drift" and/or inconsistent levels in some direction, and to avoid the possible requirement of so many downward adjustments that the screws end up almost level with the old floor! I recall a Martin Gardner article explaining that a rectangular squad of soldiers could be ordered by height both front to back (FtB) and side to side (StS) simultaneously by ordering at most each row FtB, then each column StS, and each row FtB again, and it seems the present problem is a special case of that. Alternatively, would it be best simply to level screw tops in diagonal rows across the room? It may well be this problem is trivial, and apologies if so. But one never knows, perhaps there are interesting and instructive principles involved, or pitfalls to avoid. So I would appreciate any constructive ideas or better still demonstrable results.
You are here: Home › Year 1 › Come and See Anansi…. The Bigfoot Theatre company visited year 1 and performed 'Come and See Anansi'. Adrian was fantastic and we had great fun watching his performance at the beginning of the day. In the afternoon we were lucky enough to have class workshops with Adrian and we learnt about being a performer and using tableaux's to tell a story. We used our bodies and facial expressions to communicate feelings and emotions and finally retold our own Anansi stories. The day was filled with lots of laughter and some of the children shared their reflections of the day….
in Awesome, parenting, Wisdom Why I Made My 4-Year-Old Believe He's a Superhero by Yousuf Aslam October 14, 2016, 10:51 pm Last night, after careful thought, I finally told my 4 year old, the secret that I had been keeping from him since his birth. In his dimly lit room, while he snuggled up in his cosy warm bed, instead of the usual bedtime story-telling routine, I held his small, beautiful hands and prepared him for what was about to come. "Son, I have something really important to tell you tonight, something that I wanted to wait to tell you until you were old enough to understand" I said with a straight face, but I knew that my worry of the realisation of what I was going to reveal must have been apparent. "What is it dad?" he replied with concern. I could see the anticipation in his eyes like he somehow already knew that the words that he was about to hear would be life altering. And indeed they were. "Puppa, your daddy always tells you that you're our superhero, well, it's about that." As if the intrigue wasn't already at it's highest point, the word 'superhero' was sure to tip it over the edge. After a short but significant pause I continued, "you're not normal, or ordinary at all baby" I said adding tremendously to the already heightened suspense. "Allah's made you perfect in every single way you can imagine, you have eyes and ears, your arms and legs, your amazing brain that works things out so quickly and most of all, he's given you the biggest and kindest super-loving heart in the world. But the real secret is, He's given all this to you for a reason" I said and then looked for any reaction at all. He was fixated with curiosity but also with the beginning of a new found excitement. So I continued. "You've been sent down to make this world a better place. You're a real hero, an undercover superhero sent to help people wherever they may be and help them in anyway you can." "Are you serious dad?" he replied with the cutest optimistically raised eyebrows. "I'm one hundred million percent serious puppa, you have a mission, to use all that you've been given and help make this world a better and safer place. Starting with your family and at school and wherever you go after that." "Does mummy know?" he responded trying to take in the gravity of what I was saying. "Of course she does, we both know you're special, but this our family secret" I replied while smiling, planning to improvise from this point onwards. And then he said something which took me a while to register. "Are you an undercover superhero too dad?" he asked with the his organic innocence. I paused, perplexed for a moment and with my own realisation fast approaching I replied, "yes son, me and mummy were also sent here to do good in this world." Before I could gauge his final reaction, he leapt on to me, and hugged me for what seemed like forever, bonding through our mission and excited about our future. I could feel his happiness through the tightness and comfort of his enormous hug. I held his face to once again look into his mesmerisingly majestic eyes, and before I could, I caught his smile, full of emotion and what I think was a sense of purpose. A purpose we're all born with, but one that gets lost in one's personal struggles of life. For this boy at least, his purpose will be ingrained and constantly reminded, and what's most surprising, that a 4 year old has awakened my purpose too. Written by Yousuf Aslam Incredibly blessed dad of two, living to fulfil my purpose, founder of amazing.org.uk. New! IlmFeed Podcast Muslim Man Saves Life of Man About to Attempt Suicide 10 Effective Methods for Better Money Management Turkey Unveils First Domestically-Produced Electric Cars Malaysia's Prime Minister Questions India's Citizenship Amendment Act Global Summit in Malaysia Plans to Tackle Problems Facing Muslim Ummah The Secret Muslim Plot to Overthrow the British in India A Short Analysis of ITV's 'Islam's Non-Believers' Documentary Spanish Muslim Walks 9,000 km to Perform Umrah IlmFeed is dedicated to publishing informative and inspirational articles about Islam and Muslims. IlmFeed features articles about Islamic History, Muslim personalities, Mosques around the world, inspirational stories and much more. About IlmFeed Help IlmFeed Grow Copyright © IlmFeed 2018
Prompt use of an effective anti-malarial drug is essential for controlling malaria and its adverse effects in pregnancy. The World Health Organization recommends an artemisinin-based combination therapy as the first-line treatment of uncomplicated malaria in the second and third trimesters of pregnancy. The study objective was to determine the degree to which presumed episodes of uncomplicated symptomatic malaria in pregnancy were treated with a recommended anti-malarial regimen in a region of Uganda. Utilizing a population-based random sample, we interviewed women living in Jinja, Uganda who had been pregnant in the past year. Self-reported malaria during the index pregnancy was reported among 67% (n = 334) of the 500 participants. Among the 637 self-reported episodes of malaria, an anti-malarial drug was used for treatment in 85% of the episodes. Use of a currently recommended treatment in the first trimester was uncommon (5.6%). A contraindicated anti-malarial drug (sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine and/or artemether-lumefantrine) was involved in 70% of first trimester episodes. Recommended anti-malarials were used according to the guidelines in only 30.1% of all second and third trimester episodes. Self-reported malaria was extremely common in this population and adherence to treatment guidelines for the management of malaria in pregnancy was poor. Use of artemether-lumefantrine combined with non-recommended anti-malarials was common practice. Overuse of anti-malarial drugs, especially ones that are no longer recommended, undermines malaria control efforts by fueling the spread of drug resistance and delaying appropriate treatment of non-malarial febrile illnesses. Improved diagnostic capacity is essential to ultimately improving the management of malaria-like symptoms during pregnancy and appropriate use of currently available anti-malarials. The deleterious consequences of malaria infection during pregnancy for both the mother and her fetus have been widely reported [1–4]. The current World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines for the treatment of uncomplicated malaria in pregnancy recommend an artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) as the first-line treatment in the second and third trimesters of pregnancy . Artemisinins are contraindicated during the first trimester of pregnancy due to embryo-foetal toxicity observed in studies of rats and rabbits [6–8] and limited safety data of early pregnancy use in humans [9, 10]. However, the WHO does recommend first trimester use of ACT if the treatment is believed to be life-saving for the mother and other available anti-malarial drugs are considered unsuitable. Oral quinine plus clindamycin for seven days (or quinine monotherapy if clindamycin is not available) is the recommended first-line treatment in the first trimester of pregnancy for uncomplicated malaria . Treatment with oral quinine is generally believed not to be toxic to the foetus, irrespective of trimester of use , although data are limited [5, 9, 11, 12]. Clindamycin is often not affordable or available in most malaria endemic countries, and so quinine monotherapy is more common . While chloroquine and sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) monotherapy are no longer recommended in sub-Saharan Africa for the treatment of uncomplicated falciparum malaria because of high levels of parasite resistance, their use remains commonplace [13, 14]. Chloroquine is believed to be safe for use in all trimesters of pregnancy [9, 10, 15]. SP, a folic acid antagonist, is contraindicated during the first trimester of pregnancy because of the potential risk of cardiac anomalies and neural tube defects ; however, no association between SP exposure in early pregnancy and increased risk of congenital malformations has been reported . In Uganda, malaria is thought to be the leading cause of morbidity and mortality, and accounts for almost half of all in-patient deaths among children less than five years of age . The prevalence of placental malaria (based on PCR) was estimated at 26% for HIV uninfected women prescribed intermittent preventive treatment with SP (IPTp-SP) and 19% for HIV infected women prescribed daily trimethoprim-sulphamethoxazole . The Ugandan Ministry of Health (MOH) recommends use of microscopy or rapid antigen testing for the diagnosis of malaria in pregnant women with symptoms of uncomplicated malaria . However, diagnostic equipment and/or a trained technician are often unavailable in rural settings, resulting in a presumptive diagnosis of malaria based on clinical symptoms. Uncomplicated malaria generally presents with fever, malaise, and other non-specific symptoms; distinguishing malaria from other febrile illnesses based on clinical presentation is challenging [19–23]. Presumptive treatment of malaria based on fever occurs commonly, leading to overuse of anti-malarial drugs and delays in seeking treatment for other febrile illnesses [20, 24–27]. In Uganda, artemether-lumefantrine (AL), an ACT, is the first-line recommended treatment for uncomplicated malaria. While the Ugandan MOH changed their policy regarding the treatment of uncomplicated malaria in pregnancy from chloroquine plus SP to ACT in 2004 based on the WHO recommendations, this policy was not implemented until 2006. During the first half of 2006, all government, private, and not-for-profit health care facilities received AL free-of-charge . These supplies were followed by in-service trainings and the provision of wall-charts . AL was also meant to replace chloroquine plus SP in the national home-based management of fever program. However, since 2006, national shortages of AL have challenged the implementation of this policy and proper treatment of malaria in Uganda [28–30]. The purpose of the present analysis was to determine the degree to which presumed episodes of uncomplicated symptomatic malaria in pregnancy were treated with a recommended anti-malarial regimen in a region of Uganda. Between November, 2008 and January, 2009, home-based interviews were conducted among a simple random sample of 500 female residents of Kibibi and Namizi parishes in Budondo-sub county of Jinja District, Uganda, to determine patterns of self-reported malaria episodes and self-reported anti-malarial drug use during pregnancy. The parent study ascertained use of insecticide treated nets (ITNs) and intermittent presumptive therapy (IPTp) with SP during pregnancy, as well as possible factors associated with use. Women who had a pregnancy within the past 12 months that lasted until at least the third trimester, regardless of pregnancy outcome, between the ages of 15 and 49 years, were eligible to participate. Details of the study population and procedures have been described elsewhere . Sampling was based on census data completed in November 2008 by the Ugandan Malaria Surveillance Project. Namizi and Kibibi parishes are comprised of 21,681 residents living among 16 rural and peri-urban villages, of whom 4,654 were females aged 15-49 years, and 867 of these women reported having been pregnant in the previous 12 months. One public health center that provides antenatal care is located in each parish; Kibibi has a level II facility and Namizi has a level IV facility. The primary economic activity in this area is farming, with sugar cane and coffee being the main cash crops. The average annual entomological inoculation rate in Jinja is 6 infective bites per person per year . Malaria transmission in this area is considered meso-endemic, defined by transmission occurring throughout the year with peaks during two rainy seasons. A cross-sectional parasitological survey identified a prevalence of the Plasmodium falciparum parasite of 15% among children 1-9 years of age in 1999 . A pregnancy history calendar was generated for each woman to record episodes of self-reported malaria, any anti-malarial use during pregnancy, and antenatal care (ANC) visits. Additionally, when asking specifically about SP and AL, women were shown photographs of SP and AL packaging and the corresponding tablets for the most common formulations of these drugs available in the area. In this setting, non-artemisinin anti-malarials were available from privately owned drug shops and other non-clinical sources, making presumptive self-treatment unaccompanied by medical consultation possible. Because one of the aims of the project was to identify factors associated with use of IPTp with SP, for each ANC visit the woman attended, she was asked if SP was offered and administered by the health facility. The source of non-SP anti-malarial medications (e.g. health center, drug shop, community health worker, friend) was not ascertained. Gestational age by trimester was estimated by subtracting an average pregnancy length of 40 weeks from the child's date of birth unless other information was provided to suggest the pregnancy was of a shorter or longer duration. This information allowed for the identification of the calendar month associated with each trimester of pregnancy. A pre-tested interviewer-administered structured questionnaire was used to collect participant responses. The questionnaire ascertained information on socio-demographic characteristics, socio-cultural factors, obstetric history, knowledge and attitude about malaria, antenatal clinic use, use of ITNs and IPTp, self-reported episodes of malaria and anti-malarial drug use. Wherever possible, questions were taken from those used in large international surveys, including the Uganda Demographic Health Survey, and the Malaria Indicator Survey [34, 35]. The questionnaire was translated from English to Lusoga. Self-reported malaria was ascertained by asking the woman if she believed she was ever sick with malaria during the index pregnancy. If a study subject reported yes, then the timing and treatment of each presumed episode was recorded. Because the policy of presumptive treatment of malaria based on clinical symptoms is common in this area, and the public health centers in these parishes lack diagnostic equipment, it was determined that soliciting additional information regarding a health provider's diagnosis or laboratory test would not greatly improve the validity of this assessment. All possible treatments utilized were recorded for each episode and were captured as: AL, SP, quinine, chloroquine, paracetamol, herbs, no treatment, or other if none of the above. Treatments were compared to anti-malarials currently recommended by the Ugandan MOH, stratified by first and second/third trimesters of pregnancy. Current recommendations were enacted as policy in 2005, and pregnancies included in the study occurred between 2007 and 2009. Analyses were performed using Stata version 11.0 (College Station, Texas, USA). Patterns of use of anti-malarials drugs in response to self-reported episodes of malaria were determined and reported as frequencies. Primary analyses calculated the proportion of self-reported malaria episodes treated with a WHO recommended drug regimen, stratified by trimester of pregnancy. The study was approved by the Makerere University Research and Ethics Committee, the Uganda National Council for Science and Technology, and the University of Washington Human Subjects Division. All participants provided written informed consent. Six hundred twenty nine households were visited between November 2008 and January 2009 to identify 500 eligible women. All of the potential study subjects agreed to participate. Eligibility and participation of study subjects have been published elsewhere . The demographic characteristics of the study population are shown in Table 1. Stillbirth occurred in seven of the index pregnancies, and the remaining pregnancies ended in a live birth. Nearly all women (99%) attended ANC at least 1 time, 95% with 2 or more visits, 73% had 3 or more visits, and 34% with the recommended four or more visits during pregnancy. The mean number of ANC visits was 3.2, and 86% of women initiated ANC during the 1st or 2nd trimester. The self-perceived risk of malaria during pregnancy was high, with 70% of women responding they were specifically worried about getting sick with malaria during their most recent pregnancy. Miscarriage/stillbirth was the most feared consequence of malaria in pregnancy reported by women (50%), followed by maternal death (16%), and the baby being adversely affected (12%). Self-reported malaria during the index pregnancy was reported by 67% (n = 334) of participants (Table 2). Multiple self-reported malaria episodes were also common, with 37% of women reporting two or more malaria episodes. A total of 637 episodes were reported in the cohort. Among women with self-reported malaria, the first reported malaria episode occurred most frequently during the 2nd trimester (46%), followed by the 1st trimester (36%). Among women with self-reported malaria, 94% reported using an anti-malarial drug at least once to treat malaria during the index pregnancy. This represents 63% of all women interviewed. Among the 637 self-reported episodes of malaria during the index pregnancy, an anti-malarial drug was used for treatment in 85% of the episodes. Use of anti-malarials was stratified by trimester of pregnancy and categorized by currently recommended treatments (Table 3). Use of a currently recommended treatment in the first trimester was uncommon: only 5.6% of first trimester episodes were treated with quinine. A contraindicated anti-malarial drug (SP and/or AL) was involved in 70% of first trimester episodes. Use of AL alone or in conjunction with another anti-malarial was the most common regimen in the first trimester (42%), followed by SP monotherapy (23%). A stratified analysis showed no difference between the proportion of women using a recommended treatment in the first trimester between primigravid and multigravid women (p = 0.4). Half of all second and third trimester episodes (240/478) were treated with a currently recommended anti-malarial (AL or quinine). However 40% of episodes treated with a recommended anti-malarial (96/240) were also treated with an additional, non-recommended anti-malarial, either before, after, or concurrently with the recommended anti-malarials (Table 3). Recommended anti-malarials were used according to the guidelines in only 30.1% of all second and third trimester episodes. Precise data on the sequence of anti-malarials during treatment of individual episodes of self-reported illness are not available. SP, which was not recommended for treatment of symptomatic malaria owing to widespread drug resistance, was used alone or in combination in 33% of the episodes. There was no difference between the proportion of women using a recommended treatment in the second/third trimester of pregnancy between primigravid and multigravid women (p = 0.6). These results suggest that self-reported malaria was extremely common in this population; nearly two-thirds of women experienced at least one episode of illness during their most recent pregnancy. Adherence to treatment guidelines for management of malaria in pregnancy was poor. Almost all self-reported malaria episodes occurring during the first trimester of pregnancy were treated with a non-recommended regimen and 70% included a drug that is contraindicated in pregnancy. In second and third trimesters, only one-third of episodes were treated with an anti-malarial regimen according to the guidelines. Use of AL combined with non-recommended anti-malarials was common practice. To minimize adverse pregnancy outcomes related to malaria, timely and effective treatment is essential. However, only a limited number of anti-malarial drugs available are deemed safe for use in pregnancy. The lack of safe and effective drugs for treatment of malaria in pregnancy is a considerable problem that is exacerbated for malaria episodes occurring in the first trimester as even fewer drugs are recommended during this embryo-sensitive period. Use of oral quinine is particularly problematic considering its marked side-effects, poor adherence, and a long complicated treatment course requiring a dose be taken every 8 hours for 7 days [10, 12, 36, 37]. Furthermore, P. falciparum resistance to quinine has been reported in Southeast Asia, which may eventually limit the effectiveness of this regimen . Therefore, first trimester alternatives are needed. Currently, ACT is contraindicated in the first trimester due to safety concerns for potential teratogenicity based on the severe embryo-fetal toxicity observed in rats and rabbits [6–9]. Recent modeling suggests the probability is 12% that an embryo will encounter an inadvertent exposure to artemisinins during the embryo-sensitive period (between week four and ten of gestation) in areas where adults receive on average one three-day treatment with an ACT per year . Monitoring inadvertent and intended first trimester exposures to ACT using pharmacovigilance systems such as pregnancy exposure registries, may eventually provide enough safety evidence in humans to warrant their use in the first trimester . The absence of adequate safety data, especially in the first trimester, is an important obstacle to malaria control in pregnancy . Efficacy data from a recent randomized trial conducted on the Thai-Burmese border reported that 63.4% (95% CI: 46.9%, 77.4%) of pregnant women with symptomatic uncomplicated P. falciparum malaria during the second or third trimesters who were treated with a supervised 7-day course of quinine monotherapy were cured, based on polymerase chain reaction corrected parasite clearance at day 63 of follow-up or delivery ; this was considerably lower than the proportion of cures in women treated with three days of artesunate-atovaquone-proguanil (94.9%; 95% CI: 81.37%, 99.11%). An earlier randomized trial, comparing artesunate versus quinine plus clindamycin for the treatment of uncomplicated P. falciparum malaria by the same team in the same area, reported no difference in efficacy with 100% of the women in each arm cured . Safe and effective anti-malarial use after the first trimester of pregnancy is limited to ACT in most geographic areas, although the available safety data are limited to 1,500 pregnancies exposed to artemisinin compounds in the 2nd and 3rd trimesters of pregnancy; in these pregnancies there were no adverse events reported for the mother or the fetus [5, 9, 44–46]. When the symptomatic patient is indeed parasitaemic, continued use of ineffective drugs may select for drug resistant strains . The extent of the problem of continued use of ineffective anti-malarials was demonstrated in our population, in which 44% of all self-reported malaria episodes were treated using SP and/or chloroquine. Anti-malarial drug-efficacy studies conducted in Jinja between December 2002 and May 2004 reported a risk of treatment failure of 50% for SP plus chloroquine among children aged six months to five years with uncomplicated malaria . Women receiving SP for treatment of malaria in Jinja are at a high risk of treatment failure, and subsequent morbidities associated with severe disease. The most recent guidelines for the treatment of malaria from WHO recommend that, in all settings, clinical suspicion of malaria should be confirmed with a parasitological diagnosis, except in places where parasitological diagnosis is not possible . However, in most parts of Africa where malaria is endemic, parasitological diagnosis is indeed not possible, and so presumptive treatment continues. Considering that malaria typically presents with non-specific symptoms of fever and malaise that are indistinguishable from several other febrile illnesses common in the same areas, this practice of empirical treatment results in substantial overuse of anti-malarial drugs [20, 24–27] and often delays the diagnosis of other febrile illnesses leading to poor clinical outcomes and heightened mortality [13, 47]. A recent study from Mozambique of pregnant women seeking care for malaria-like symptoms found only 27% of women with fever were parasitaemic . These data are similar to other studies conducted in adult and child populations in Africa reporting only 24-32% of patients with malaria-like symptoms had malaria, defined by fever with parasitaemia [25, 26, 49]. The lack of safety data on most anti-malarials recommended for use in pregnancy, particularly for first trimester drug exposures when organogenesis occurs [5, 9, 10, 50], highlights the importance of limiting the use of anti-malarial drugs during pregnancy to women whose symptoms are caused by malaria. With the advent of rapid diagnostic testing (RDTs), there is hope that access to parasitologically-based diagnoses will improve, leading to an eventual decrease in overuse of anti-malarials and drug resistance. However, even in clinics where RDTs are available, health workers persist in giving anti-malarials despite negative results [27, 51], highlighting the strength of the widespread belief that fever equals malaria and lack of clinical capacity to identify alternative diagnoses. Dedicated resources and political commitment will be needed to expand use and acceptance of RDTs, but ultimately this technology has the potential to result in a cost-savings by avoiding use of expensive ACT-based treatments on people who do not have malaria . It was recently estimated that for every billion dollars in subsidy for anti-malarial drugs, around $500 to $900 million dollars are spent on treatments for people who do not have malaria . This study has several limitations. Data on parasitologically confirmed cases of malaria were unavailable and, therefore, we were unable to distinguish which women had malaria and which ones did not. Data on specific symptoms were also unavailable and therefore uncomplicated cases could not be distinguished from severe cases, and so we were unable to determine which cases could be exempted from the recommendations that are based on uncomplicated malaria. The location where anti-malarial drugs other than SP came from was not ascertained and, therefore, the extent to which self-treatment occurred in this population is not known. The dispensing of AL was expected to be limited to health facilities due to the higher cost associated with this medication and the general lack of availability of AL in the private sector. Among women who used more than one anti-malarial per episode of malaria, it is unknown if the same provider prescribed the drugs for each episode, or if this represents women seeking care from multiple providers, or if self-treating with serial drugs from multiple shops was occurring. Furthermore, the availability of an appropriate first-line anti-malarial treatment in the health facility at the time the woman received an alternate treatment is unknown. Therefore, caution is needed when interpreting these results in relation to health providers. Women with more severe malaria-like symptoms may have been more likely to recall the details of this event. However, considering the majority of women believed they had malaria at least once during the index pregnancy, recall bias is unlikely to be significant. Women did not appear to have problems to recall use or timing of anti-malarial drugs during pregnancy. This may be expected considering there are only a limited number of drugs available for the treatment of malaria in pregnancy, and that women are quite experienced with the treatment of malaria based on the high burden of disease in this community. The process of gestational age estimation may have resulted in non-differential misclassification of trimester of anti-malarial use making frequencies equally as likely to be under-estimated in each trimester. To improve recall, interviews were assisted with a pregnancy history calendar in which each pregnancy was mapped out over time on the calendar to record episodes of self-reported malaria, any use of SP or other anti-malarials during pregnancy, and ANC visits. We sought to improve the reliability of data related to anti-malarial drug use in response to self-reported episodes of malaria by asking multiple questions related to each throughout the interview. Additionally, when asking about SP and AL, we showed women photographs of SP and AL packaging and the corresponding tablets for the most common formulations available in the area. As previously reported, the reliability of self-report of SP use was verified using ANC cards . The concordance between self-reported SP doses and ANC card was high (Pearson's rho = 0.93). In an attempt to decrease misclassification between SP used for IPTp and SP used as treatment, women were asked if they believed they were sick with malaria at the time they took each dose of SP. Overuse of anti-malarial drugs, especially ones that are no longer recommended, undermines malaria control efforts by fueling the spread of drug resistance and delaying appropriate treatment of non-malarial febrile illnesses. Unnecessary exposures to anti-malarials in pregnancy are particularly of concern given the lack of human safety data on these drugs. In addition to intensified measures to reduce malaria transmission, improved diagnostic capacity is essential to ultimately improving the management of malaria-like symptoms during pregnancy and appropriate use of currently available anti-malarials. However, improving diagnostic capacity will require additional resources and changes to the existing health care infrastructure. LS conceived of the study, and led the study design, protocol development, data collection, analysis and writing of the manuscript. NW and AS participated in the study design. SS and MK assisted with the coordination of the data collection. NW, AS, PB, BR, SS, and MK contributed to the analysis plan, participated in the interpretation of results and preparation of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
{March 31, 2011} A Quick Analysis (I can't help feeling like this is a blatant flailing around of my ignorance, but here it is anyway.) ABC's "Nightline" from 3/30 opens with a billboard: headlines superimposed over clips, some complete with nat sound from upcoming stories—all very active scenes to give the audience the feeling of "things happening" that people tend stop to gawk at normally (like slowing down to look at an accident on the street)—and voice over teasers to accompany each clip. The teasers say just enough to give the audience an idea of where the clips are coming from, but not enough to explain what it is exactly the audience is seeing. ABC could have used simple graphics or left out the sound from the clips and just had the voice over, but the action and the chaos in the first clip of the girls fighting is attention getting thanks to shock value and the voice over serves the purpose of explaining a little to keep that attention. The headline is short, large and eye catching in case the audience is paying more attention to what they're seeing instead of the voice over. The audience still gets an idea of what they're seeing without any real explanation. The next clip is even more dramatic, building on the intensity of the clip before, though it does not include the nat sounds. It puts alarming images right up front with the voice over associating distressing notions with those images by playing over them as they rush past in a quick montage of buildings falling and people running and fires raging. All of it sending a quietly urgent message: "The world is falling apart!" But the voice over implies the news can tell everyone what exactly there is to fear and other things that might help. The last clip is something "pleasing." The clip still has a feeling of "something happening," but there is no doom involved, so it's just nice. At that point the audience is already caught, almost anticipating the next blow; the first clip being shocking and uncomfortable, the second clip terrifying. When the last one arrives it's a pleasant surprise and interesting just for being so drastically different from what came before. Now the audience is calmed and still interested so they don't feel like maybe they should get up and run or prepare for anything immediately, they're okay again with sitting down for the program. The first package is opened again with the clip of girls fighting with nat sound before going in with a voice over. They could have switched to stand up once the scene had been firmly planted in front of the audience to remind them they are curious, but it wouldn't have been as visually engaging. Fading the audio from the clips they use in the "Reality Fighting" package out as they bring up SOT from interviews works well as a transition and definitely connects the two pieces. The fact that they don't do that every time they move over to an interview keeps things interesting. The voice of the interviewee has already been established as something the audience can associate with the clips that caught their attention, so the abrupt change to SOT every so often instead of that transition reattaches audience attention who might have started to let their minds wander wondering about those clips and the people in them. If the audience is allowed to wander for too long, they miss the point of the package. The reporter isn't seen too often, which is good since all visuals are kept relevant and keeps the audience's attention on the story. The same is done for the other two packages, though the last package jumps around a lot less. The last package moves at a more relaxed pace. The interviewee is allowed to be heard more, to tell his own story more. After the shocking and the danger, the audience is reminded that there are some harmless things in the world, so people don't leave "Nightline" feeling anxious and associating that anxiety with the program and consequently being averse to coming back for another episode. lwhoscribbles @ 8:41 pm [filed under Uncategorized Leave a Comment » {March 31, 2011} ABC Nightline 3/30 Leaving this here to find later. Supposed to analyze it. Will update with that in a bit. ABC "Nightline" 3/30 Update: Analysis posted and linked on Writing Assignments page lwhoscribbles @ 11:06 am [filed under Uncategorized Leave a Comment » {March 18, 2011} Having to do with another class not unrelated It never occurred to me that it might be difficult to switch back and forth between writing with a flat-facts-news mindset and writing with a storytelling mindset. I like talking to people and hearing their stories, but apparently somewhere in the last couple of years more or less I started looking for things as stories as opposed to people as stories. That's just silly, really, considering that stories don't really happen unless people are involved. Even if it's a story about a thing (talking just stories now, not newsy stories), those things are anthropomorphic. Someone tells a story in which we follow the journey of a leaf falling from a tree and off around a city and everywhere the leaf is doing something. "The leaf drifted sleepily…" Leaves can't get sleepy. They are inanimate, non-sentient objects, but people give them thoughts, emotions, personalities. The leaf becomes a person and so we have a story. I chose a handbell festival as a story subject. The festival didn't do anything, but happen and it only happened because people made it happen, and that's all interesting in passing, but I feel like (and the teacher told me as much as well) nothing's really happening. This would have really been something to follow as it came into being as opposed to just covering it when it was already a full grown thing. It would have been good to talk to the people as they made it happen, see who those people are and how they came to be there, what they felt about the whole thing. That might have been a story. What I have isn't much of anything. Not that it couldn't have been, but I really stepped into the handbell thing too late to do a whole lot. The director, however, is still happening. He can tell his story, unlike things which can not tell you anything about themselves without help. Or the bass bell player who is a 6th grade teacher in love with performing (she was getting ready for a performance of "Little Women" at the same time as she was practicing for the festival). ((She's my mother-in-law, so maybe it's too personal for me to do?)) One of the things I'm afraid of is that I might find these stories interesting, but that they aren't really Stories. The sort an audience will care about or could be drawn to care about. Ah well, just have to keep trying, I guess. {March 17, 2011} In which I explain The Plan I'm starting this blog as a class assignment, but this does not, however, imply that I don't want to be here or to have much to do with it. I'll be sharing here things about mass communication that intrigue me and the work I'm proudest of as I'm introduced to methods of mass communication and become familiar with using different media to communicate a variety of different stories and notions. My hope, really, is that this blog gives me something solid to work with to examine my own thoughts about what I've learned and to observe how I'm applying what I've been taught. I would definitely appreciate any constructive criticism and encouragement that anyone has to offer, too. Any other way this blog helps with growth in this field is just awesome. Wish me luck! It's an adventure!
"When is it appropriate to find someone guilty of manslaughter where that person has been involved in the supply of a class A controlled drug, which is then freely and voluntarily self-administered by the person to whom it was supplied, and the administration of the drug then causes his death?" The appeal was allowed and the appellant's conviction for manslaughter quashed. "It is possible to imagine factual scenarios in which two people could properly be regarded as acting together to administer an injection. But nothing of the kind was the case here. As in R v Dalby and R v Dias the appellant supplied the drug to the deceased, who then had a choice, knowing the facts, whether to inject himself or not. The heroin was, as the certified question correctly recognises, self-administered, not jointly administered. The appellant did not administer the drug. Nor, for reasons already given, did the appellant cause the drug to be administered to or taken by the deceased. The answer to the certified question is: "In the case of a fully-informed and responsible adult, never".
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A security that can be converted into common stock at the option of the securityholder; includes convertible bonds and convertible preferred stock. A security that, at the option of the holder, may be exchanged for another asset, generally a fixed number of shares of common stock. Convertible issues frequently are fixed-income securities such as debentures and preferred stock. Their prices are influenced by changes in interest rates and the values of the assets into which they may be exchanged. Convertible securities vary in price to a greater degree than straight debt but to a lesser degree than the underlying asset. Also called convertible. See also bond conversion, busted convertible, conversion premium, conversion price, conversion ratio, conversion value, mandatory convertible security. Case Study Convertible securities sometimes sport unusual features that can make these investments difficult to evaluate. In July 2001 Norvellus Systems, a manufacturer of semiconductor production equipment, issued unrated zero-coupon bonds convertible into shares of the firm's common stock at a price of $76.36 per share, a 50%premium to the market price. Zero-coupon debt securities are popular with many borrowers and investors, so the lack of a coupon on the issue was not especially unusual. The unique feature was the issue price of the bonds, which were sold at face value rather than a discount to face value. Virtually all zero-coupon bonds are issued at a discount to par value, thus attracting buyers who are assured of earning a positive return in the event the securities are held to maturity. To attract investors to this unique bond Norvellus agreed to allow bondholders to redeem their securities at par value at the end of one year. In other words, buyers of the securities were guaranteed they would be able to recoup their original investment at the end of a year if they were unhappy with the firm's stock price performance. During the first year Norvellus invested proceeds of the bond issue in U.S. government securities. The government securities collateralized its bonds and allowed the firm to earn interest income at the same time it was not paying interest to bondholders who had purchased the firm's debt. Holders of the convertibles who decided not to redeem the bonds at the end of the first year held a debt security that could be converted into common stock but paid no interest. the third secured Convertible Security with a face value equal to 122. the fourth secured Convertible Security with a face value equal to 122. Bergen will not convert an amount that is less than $300,000 at any time (except where the balance of a Convertible Security outstanding is less than $300,000). The conversion price will be determined by dividing the relevant amount to be converted by 90% of the average of three daily volume weighted average prices ("VWAPs") during a specified period prior to the conversion notice date of the Convertible Security. A decrease in the loss per share or increase in earnings per share caused by inclusion of a contingent security, convertible security, option or warrant in diluted EPS. Under existing rules, a convertible security is a common stock equivalent if at the time it is issued it has an effective yield of less than two-thirds of the current average Aa-rated corporate bond yield. At $1 billion, it was the largest registered convertible security ever issued by a Latin American company. The transaction is the first convertible security by a Latin American company since December, 1996 and the first equity or convertible issuance out of Latin America since July of 1998. The convertible security is for a three-year period, with conversion to CSCC's common stock at any time during the term of the convertible security. In addition CSCC is pleased to have Everbright nominate one member to CSCC's board of directors after the closing of the convertible security transaction. These transactions are subject to execution by both companies of definitive convertible security and stock purchase agreements, approval by regulatory agencies as well as the board of directors of both companies and also shareholder approval where required.
Partner perspective: UCHealth Published: 03/18/2022 - 14:43 John Drigot and Lajju Sudhakar Sustainability coordinator and Business manager for support services at UCHealth Number of beds: 1,997 beds Number of FTE: 26,080 UCHealth's sustainability coordinator John Drigot and business manager for support services Lajju Sudhakar share why they're excited to be part of the Practice Greenhealth network, what they love most about their jobs, and innovations realized during the COVID-19 pandemic that their organization will continue moving forward. What excites you most about being part of the Practice Greenhealth network? John & Lajju: What excites me most is not having to reinvent the wheel. Hearing from others in the network that have been doing this for a while enables us to pick up the best practices from what they've done while avoiding some common mistakes. It is especially helpful to work with partners of a similar size and get their expertise. We've been doing data in the northern region for a while, which helps our system understand more about sustainability data and why you gather it, normalize it, and make the case for a specific course of action based on the data. How would you describe your relationship with Practice Greenhealth in one word? John & Lajju: Educational How and why has sustainability been prioritized at your health system? John & Lajju: Social responsibility and sustainability are strategic priorities for the UCHealth system. As we move past the latest surge of patients with COVID-19, senior leadership wants to get back to advancing these priorities, because we have found sustainability is important for our employees as well as the communities we serve. Successful sustainability and resiliency programs require collaboration across many departments and shared ownership and responsibility. Has there been a recent internal collaboration that has surprised you and elevated your work? John & Lajju: Launching a broad sustainability steering committee was a challenge, especially in an organization of our size. But we have been impressed with the collaboration and buy-in we're receiving from leaders across UCHealth. Tell us about a teammate or colleague who is going above and beyond in their focus on healthier environments and healthier people. John & Lajju: Amanda Kittelson of Yampa Valley Medical Center has emerged as an incredible resource as we begin our sustainability journey. Previously an environmental engineer for a major energy company, Kittelson brings a wealth of knowledge on environmental hazards and best practices, as well as a real passion for making the health care we deliver less impactful on the environment. We are so fortunate to have her. What innovations and lessons learned were realized during the COVID-19 pandemic that will continue moving forward? John & Lajju: During the pandemic, we developed more collaborative and cross-functional working groups. Before the pandemic, we functioned more regionally or at the facility level. Our system-wide collaborative groups are truly exciting and will help us with the work we have to do regarding social responsibility and sustainability. John: Helping UCHealth use its resources more efficiently Lajju: The number of people I get to work with throughout the system How did you get interested in it in this work? John: Growing up in Wisconsin, my dad was a recycler and was very thrifty. As someone who experienced the Great Depression, my grandmother's favorite quote was "waste not, want not". In 2008, I became a LEED AP, and it sort of launched me into a sustainability path. Lajju: When I was in college, my university wasn't super receptive to sustainable practices or social responsibility. So, I lobbied with friends and fellow students to raise awareness. John: I'm inspired by people who are not afraid to stand up for what they believe in. I'm currently inspired by the resolve of the people in Ukraine. Lajju: I'm inspired by people willing to try new things. In health care, I think we tend to get stuck in a routine, but breaking out of that can help define a new and potentially innovative way to tackle a problem. How does your work at your system influence what you do in your personal life or community? John: My personal life has actually influenced what I do at my job. I've always been more sustainable in my personal life and feel like I should model the behavior that I would like to see. I strive to be a good role model. Lajju: I'm very grateful to be at UCHealth, so I try to be grateful at home and in my community for what I have. I never take things for granted and wish to experience everything I have to the fullest.
This Evidence Brief outlines and discusses the Western NSW PHN arrangements and how they are supporting and building a stronger platform for the delivery of Aboriginal primary healthcare services in this region. Phase 3 of the Lighthouse Hospital Project was announced by the Hon Ken Wyatt AM MP, Minister for Indigenous Health on 10th February 2017. Deeble Institute Issues Brief No. 17: Food and nutrition programs for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians: what works to keep people healthy and strong?
FRANKFURT (Bloomberg) -- Mercedes-Benz is selling almost as many Maybach cars in China each month as it used to sell worldwide in a year when it targeted the super-rich with a stand-alone model. Chinese buyers are snapping up about 500 a month of the ultraluxury variant of the Mercedes S class, which starts at about 1.44 million yuan ($230,000) in China. That compares to a peak of 600 Maybach cars in 2003, which at the time cost more than $350,000. "Sales in China are developing very well," Ola Kaellenius, sales chief for Mercedes, said. Daimler revived Maybach this year to chase the wealthiest buyers, people who otherwise might have considered a Rolls-Royce or a Bentley. The Mercedes-Maybach adds legroom and opulent options such as hand-made silver-plated champagne goblets to the standard S class. The effort appears to be working. Mercedes started selling Maybach in China in February as part of a push to catch up with BMW and Audi in the world's largest auto market, which is suffering a slowdown. Mercedes sales rose 20 percent last month, driven not just by Maybach but also by compact cars and SUVs. Audi, the bestselling upscale car brand in the country, posted its first sales decline in the country in more than two years. "We're very optimistic that we can sustain the sales momentum," Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche said on Wednesday at an event near Stuttgart, Germany. Zetsche needs strong growth in China to hit his goal of overtaking BMW and Audi in global sales by the end of the decade. China, the world's biggest market for the S class, is also key for profit margins because of the high numbers of top-of-the-line vehicles sold there. Taxes and fees push up sticker prices, especially on imported vehicles like the Maybach. Mercedes promotes the ultraluxury nameplate in China as "the premier choice of China's modern-day luminaries as they show their utmost respect to the world." The first effort to revive the 1930s-era marque started in 2002 and failed in part because the car was too similar to the S class, even though it won over customers like pop star Madonna. By 2011, when Daimler decided to phase out the brand, it was selling between 200 and 300 cars a year.
Once you're used to Piracetam you might think about stepping up to Oxiracetam, or 4-hydroxy-2-oxo-l-pyrrolidineacetamide. While Oxiracetam hasn't been studied as much as Piracetam, research suggests that it's an even more powerful cognitive enhancer. Studies of rodents and humans show that Oxiracetam protects rats and mice from amnesia after physical or chemical injury, such as administration of scopolamine, and that it improves cognitive performance in people with brain damage and various forms of non-Alzheimer's-related dementia. >> Looking to Buy Oxiracetam? Click here to see our recommended sellers. A 2013 study of rats with traumatic brain injuries revealed that giving them Oxiracetam made it easier for them to find their way through a maze. Oxiracetam appears to have a stronger effect on memory and cognition than Piracetam does. In a 1986 study, mice were shocked and then given either Piracetam or Oxiracetam. Neither group of mice developed amnesia as a result of the shocks. However, the mice given Oxiracetam were much more likely to avoid getting shocked again than the mice given Piracetam were. More recent studies of human patients with vascular dementia or with mild or medium brain injuries show that Oxiracetam is better than Piracetam for reducing dementia symptoms. Anecdotal reports suggest that Oxiracetam is most useful for enhancing logical thinking skills, for example, when studying mathematics. An interesting potential benefit of Oxiracetam is the ability to correct deficits in social recognition. In an experiment, rats were given trimethyltin (TMT). This made them unable to recognize other rats they had seen 30 minutes before. If rats were given Oxiracetam a week before they were given TMT, they did not experience this effect. Not much is known about how Oxiracetam improves cognitive performance. In general, the mechanisms that enhance learning seem to be similar to those found in Piracetam. Studies in rats suggest that Oxiracetam affects acetylcholine and glutamate receptors. Acetylcholine is associated with memory and learning. Glutamate can act as toxin in the body, building up and eventually causing neurodegenerative disorders in the elderly. Oxiracetam might facilitate neurotransmission by preventing the blockage of calcium channels and altering the composition of the cell membrane. Unlike Aniracetam, Oxiracetam does not seem to affect dopamine or serotonin receptors, and therefore does not act as a mood enhancer. It will not help you if you are seeking relief from anxiety or depression. Because Oxiracetam is stronger than Piracetam, it's probably best not to try it until you are comfortable with how Piracetam affects you. Oxiracetam seems to be about as strong as Aniracetam. However, Oxiracetam is more bioavailable and therefore stays in the body longer, so you don't have to take it as often. Oxiracetam's bioavailability ranges from 68 to 82 percent. Aniracetam, on the other hand, has a bioavailability of around only 0.2 percent. Recommended doses of Oxiracetam range from 600 to 3,000 milligrams, once a day. It's best to start with a low dose and work your way up. Oxiracetam is water-soluble, so you can buy it as a powder and dissolve it in water or juice. While a powder is less convenient than a pill, purchasing it in powder form means that you can make minute dosage adjustments. You can stack Oxiracetam with other nootropics, but you're better off trying out Oxiracetam on its own first, to see how it affects you and what your optimal dose is. Some people report experiencing headache, brain fog or gastrointestinal upset after taking Oxiracetam. Taking choline could help prevent headache. In a case reported in 2011, a man undergoing spinal surgery experienced anaphylactic shock after being given Oxiracetam. Is Oxiracetam right for you? You don't need a mood enhancer. If you meet these requirements, try a low dose of Oxiracetam and see how it affects you. Originally posted on May 27, 2014, last updated on December 4, 2018. I'm curious about the use of Oxiracetam for dementia. IF Oxiracetam is a drug which increases/enhances cognitive performance, how come "brain fog" is listed as a possible side-effect? To me, this reads as counter productive to its intended purpose. Or perhaps I am misunderstanding. Explanation/clarification would be most appreciated and for this I thank you in advance.
I've been attempting to set up a DSC Pull Server at my organization. I'm able to set up the pull server as http (AllowUnencryptedTraffic) with no issues. I can also see XML when I visit the page. I get no DSC errors, but it doesn't appear the PullServer.svc is set up correctly. When I try to visit the page, I get a "Page can't be found message". I have WMF 5.0 installed on the pull server and the client machine. Both are 2012R2. I'm wondering, should I be able to see xml when I navigate to https://localhost:8080/PullServer.svc on the local pull server? parameter when you run the configuration script. I have the certificate installed on the node and it's signed from my organizations root CA. I've tried passing it as a parameter, and putting it directly into the script. I never get any errors when setting up the pull server. Pull server doesn't actually use XML, and unless it receives a proper request – including headers – it won't return a reply, or can return a 401 or 404. You can't really just browse to it. In terms of SSL, that's all configured at the IIS level. You set the pull server up originally as HTTP; you're trying to switch to HTTPS. Why is there a certificate on the node? The nodes don't use certificates in a normal SSL scenario. The server needs an SSL certificate, just as with any web server. Is that already in place? Sorry, I misspoke I meant server, not node. The certificate is installed on the server. You should use IIS Manager to ensure that the cert is properly bound to the website. Additionally, since you seem to be using ConfigurationNames, make sure the node is configured to use a valid RegistrationKey, and that the server has a matching one. You can also try removing the pull server's database and log files to sort of force it to "start over." I'm a little concerned about the "used to be able to see XML," because the service on the pull server shouldn't return XML under normal operation. It either returns nothing (the registration PUT operation), or it returns an octet-stream (configuration MOF or module POST operations). I've got all that documented in "The DSC Book" on LeanPub, now. I ended up re-imaging the server to start over. It ended up being a problem with IIS. We change the IIS default path to another drive (D:\Inetpub). Once I changed the physical path to D:\Inetpub, it worked. Thanks for all of your help! The topic 'Https Pull Server Issues' is closed to new replies.
International ·India Indian Officials Predict 7% Growth in the First Half of the Next Fiscal Year January 5, 2017, 9:23 AM UTC INDIA - MARCH 20: The Imperial Towers twin towers residential skyscrapers and business district development in Tardeo South Mumbai, India from Nariman Point (Photo by Tim Graham/Getty Images) Tim Graham/Getty Images India expects growth of around 7% in the first half of the next fiscal year, two officials said, painting a rosier picture for the economy than many economists after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's shock move to abolish large banknotes. Nearly 90% of transactions used to be in cash in India, which was gripped by a severe shortage of currency after Modi's Nov. 8 decision to take 500-rupee and 1,000-rupee notes, worth about $7.5 and $15, out of circulation overnight. Several private economists have said the move could drag down growth in the next fiscal year to 6.5% to 7%, as small businesses fired workers, consumer demand fell and farmers' winter sowing efforts were hit. Demonetization, as it is termed, has become a major election issue in states going to the polls this year, such as Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state with 200 million people, where the performance of Modi's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party could shape his political future. The notes, accounting for 86% of the cash in circulation, were withdrawn in an effort to crush India's huge shadow economy, boost tax revenues and promote the use of bank accounts and digital transactions, but perceptions that the ambitious operation was botched have hurt Modi's standing. The government officials, involved in budget discussions for the 2017/18 fiscal year, acknowledged that growth in Asia's third-largest economy would still be less than the 7.75% initially projected for the current fiscal year. It could even fall as low as 4% in this year's January-March quarter, they said. The budget, expected to be presented on Feb. 1, leaves Modi little room to hand out large, populist sops, despite demands by politicians, businessmen and other lobby groups for relief to the industry and taxpayers. "There is no scope for big-ticket spending, like debt waivers for farmers, or transferring money into poor people's accounts," said one of the officials, who requested anonymity as they were not authorized to speak to the media. Still, the officials said the finance ministry's internal projections leave sufficient room to allocate funds for investments and infrastructure spending, without derailing India's fiscal deficit target. India plans to cut its fiscal deficit to 3% of GDP in the fiscal year to March 2018, versus this year's target of 3.5%. Modi can fund increases of 10% to 15% in some ministries' budgets and focus on job creation in areas such as farming, construction and small businesses, the officials said. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley could announce tax incentives for individuals and firms to boost consumer demand, amid lingering uncertainty over the implementation of a nationwide goods and services tax, said one of the officials. A senior farm ministry official said budget spending on the sector for the next fiscal year could rise to about 500 billion rupees ($7.37 billion), up 40% on the current year. Major subsidies, including those on food, fertilizers and petroleum products, estimated at about 2.32 trillion rupees ($34.22 billion) for this fiscal year, are expected to go up only marginally, the officials said. The officials said good monsoon rains could accelerate growth in the second half of the year. Modi is staying within budget limits so far, despite a series of incentives to poor people, farmers, women and small businesses announced on New Year's Eve. The incentives would only cost about 35 billion rupees a year, said Soumya Kanti Gosh, chief economic adviser at state-owned State Bank of India.
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We use cookies to provide essential features and services. By using our website you agree to our use of cookies . All Products\nArts & CraftsBabyBagsBeautyBooksElectronicsHealthHomewareJewelleryKitchenLifestyleMoviesMusicPetsShoesSports & OutdoorsStationerySunglassesToys Free Shipping Anywhere in the World Shop over 1 Million Toys in our Huge New Range Anything But Typical Nora Raleigh Baskin is the ALA Schneider Family Book Award-winning author of Anything But Typical. She was chosen as a Publishers Weekly Flying Start for her novel What Every Girl (Except Me) Knows, and has since written a number of novels for middle graders and teens, including The Truth About My Bat Mitzvah, The Summer Before Boys, and Ruby on the Outside. Nora lives with her family in Connecticut. Visit her at NoraBaskin.com. Baskin (All We Know of Love) steps into the mind of an autistic boy who, while struggling to deal with the "neurotypical" world, finds his voice through his writing ability. Though Jason initially seemed a prodigy, by third grade he had fallen behind academically, and his parents reluctantly had him tested ("A year later the only letters anybody cared about were ASD, NLD, and maybe ADD or ADHD, which I think my mom would have liked better. BLNT. Better luck next time"). Now in sixth grade, Jason still has behavioral difficulties, but is passionate about his writing and actively posts stories in an online forum. There he strikes up a friendship with (and develops a crush on) a fellow writer, though he becomes distraught when he discovers they will both be attending the same writing conference. The first-person narration gives dramatic voice to Jason's inner thoughts about his family and his own insecurities, even as he withholds details (usually about incidents at school) from readers. Jason's powerful and perceptive viewpoint should readily captivate readers and open eyes. Ages 10-14. (Mar.) Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information. Gr 4-7-As if adolescence isn't difficult enough by itself, 12-year-old Jason Blake is not a "neurotypical" (NT), he's autistic and interprets the world differently from other children. As a result, kids at school make fun of him and no one seems to understand him, including his family. Writing stories is one of Jason's few escapes, the one place where he can really be himself. After Jason begins a tentative relationship with Rebecca (PhoenixBird) on Storyboard, an online writing forum, he struggles with the fear of meeting her in person. Simultaneously, he narrates his past, giving listeners a glimpse of what life is like growing up as an autistic child. Tom Parks gives a near perfect performance of this eye-opening novel (S & S, 2009) by Nora Raleigh Baskin told from Jason's viewpoint. Always using just the right tone, he liberates the story's apprehension and wit. Poignant and real, the novel's honesty will bring tears to listeners' eyes. Recommended to fans of the Joey Pigza series.-Terry Ann Lawler, Phoenix Public Library, AZ Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information. "Baskin reveals not only the obstacles that Jason faces, but also his fierce determination to be himself at all costs. Jason is a believable and empathetic character in spite of his idiosyncrasies. Baskin also does a superb job of developing his parents and younger brother as real people with real problems, bravely traversing their lives with a differently abled child without a road map, but with a great deal of love."--"School Library Journal" "Baskin's delineation of an autistic boy's world is brilliant."--"Kirkus", starred review "Should readily captivate readers and open eyes." -"Publishers Weekly" "Luminous....This is an enormously difficult subject, but Baskin, without dramatics or sentimentality, makes it universal."--"Booklist", starred review "A children's book that's every bit as subtle and smart as the best adult novel."--"nytimes.com" Home » Books » Children's » Fiction » Social Themes » Adolescence Home » Books » Children's » Fiction » Social Themes » Emotions & Feelings Home » Books » Children's » Fiction » Disabilities & Special Needs Home » Books » Children's » Growing Up & Facts of Life » Social Topics » Special Needs Creative's World Whiz Baby Anything But Typical Books © 2004-2020 Fishpond Ltd. All prices are in Pound sterlings.
1.30.18 1:00 PM People "Fire and Fury" tops Amazon sales ranks for a month Some may not like what the book is about, but 1.7 million people have kept it red hot at #1 fire and fury Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff is many things, depending on who you ask. According to Donald Trump Jr., it's a "#fakenews book". According to UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, it's trash. According to Hillary Clinton and the Grammy awards, it's fodder for a campy skit. Regardless of where you land on the White House exposé book, according to e-commerce and book-selling giant Amazon ($AMZN), it's a nonstop, bestselling juggeranaut that is showing no signs of slowing down. We've been tracking Fire and Fury's sales ranking at Amazon, and since it launched last month, it's stuck to the number-one spot on all but the past few days. According to publisher Henry Holt and Co., the book has sold more than 1.7 million copies across hardcover, e-book, and audio versions, and that's all before the paperback shows up in airport retailers and discount book shops. The book has also already been optioned for TV (hence the Grammys skit in which host James Corden asked what auditions for the show may look like) to become a series in the US. If the book is indeed trash, it's hot trash. How Snapdeal won its first angel investor — a guest lecture, hustle and lunches at the Malay Satay Hut How Sam Adams founder Jim Koch became a billionaire after leaving a consulting gig to make beer It pays to be KIND — how Daniel Lubetzky made $2.2 billion off granola bars and altruism How Tito's went from a backyard distillery to America's best-selling vodka
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The contracts with Wildside are signed and counter-signed, payment is on the way, and the publisher has asked me to please remove the free version — we want people to pay for the official e-book when it's released. I haven't finished the revised version; Wildside wants it ASAP, and the contract has a deadline in late May, so I need to get to work on that. We still don't have a specific release date for the finished book, but Wildside likes to get stuff out to market and earning money quickly. There will be a trade paperback (probably print-on-demand), and an e-book. Don't know about a hardcover yet. A mass-market paperback edition is very unlikely. No word yet on details like cover art or price. Posted on March 17, 2011 by Lawrence Watt-Evans in Progress Reports, The Final Calling. Chapter Forty and the Epilogue are now online. The serial is concluded and complete. My sincere gratitude to everyone who contributed! Wildside Press has sent my agent a contract, but it's not signed yet, so I have no information about the eventual publication date, cover price, or much of anything else. I do know that once the contracts are signed I'll be taking down the serial version, so read it while you can. I have only made the most tentative of starts on the second draft at this point. Given the time needed for revisions, editing, copy-editing, cover design, and so forth, it will still be several months before the finished book sees print. When it does see print, I'll be sending copies to everyone who donated $25 or more (in the U.S.; Canada the minimum is $30, and overseas it's $35). I'll post updates about that here when the time comes, as well as e-mailing information. I'll be verifying addresses as best I can before anything actually ships. I'm fairly sure there will be e-book editions for the Kindle and for other e-readers, as Wildside is enthusiastic about those, but again, I have no information at this point. As long as the serial is online, I'll accept donations/advance orders. (You can look at them either way, now that we know the book will appear.) Once it's down, you'll have to wait until you can order from Wildside, Amazon, B&N, or whatever your preferred source is; I won't continue taking orders after that. If you donated more than the minimum, we can discuss in e-mail what extras, if any, you might want — but please, don't do that now; wait until I announce that the book's ready and I'm verifying addresses. In the past, I've always included extras of some sort with everyone's books, but this novel is much longer than any of my previous serials, so I'm not sure whether I'll be doing that this time. We'll see. As for future serials, right now I have no definite plans. I'll want to see how the writing and publishing business develop over the next year or so — e-books and other developments are drastically changing the market. I will say, though, that this is definitely not the last Ethshar novel; I've started writing the next, a "young adult" novel with the working title Ishta's Playmate (formerly A Stranger in the Forest) that I hope will move the series back to traditional publishing. We'll see how that works out. Posted on March 6, 2011 by Lawrence Watt-Evans in Progress Reports, The Final Calling.
Facebook fined by Canada competition watchdog after privacy probe FILE PHOTO: A 3D-printed Facebook logo is seen placed on a keyboard in this illustration taken March 25, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/File Photo (Reuters) - Canada's competition watchdog said on Tuesday it had fined Facebook Inc FB.O C$9 million ($6.5 million) after an investigation found the social network made "misleading" claims about personal information of Canadians on Facebook and Messenger. The Competition Bureau said it found that Facebook's privacy claims were not consistent with the way it shared personal data of users with some third-party developers. "Although we do not agree with the Commissioner's conclusions, we are resolving this matter by entering into a consent agreement and not contesting the conclusions for the purposes of this agreement," a Facebook spokesperson said. The world's largest social network has faced broad criticism from lawmakers and regulators over its privacy practices. It agreed to pay a record $5 billion fine last year to settle a U.S. Federal Trade Commission data privacy probe. Reporting by Munsif Vengattil in Bengaluru; Editing by Maju Samuel
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LegalCrystal™ About LegalCrystal Latest Case-Laws BareAct Search Cases Search Forms Search Infographic Search Privy Council CauseList D.M. Ghia Vs. Second Income-tax Officer - Court Judgment LegalCrystal Citation legalcrystal.com/60369 Court Income Tax Appellate Tribunal ITAT Mumbai Decided On May-31-1984 Judge K Viswanathan, D Meenakshisundaram Reported in (1984)10ITD163(Mum.) Appellant D.M. Ghia Respondent Second Income-tax Officer .....of rs. 2,085.6. for the assessment year 1977-78, he found that nothing was drawn from the firm for payment of taxes. therefore, nothing is allowable under section 80v.7. for the assessment year 1978-79, he found the position to be the same as 1977-78 and there were no specific withdrawals for payment of taxes and that the drawings of the year were much less than the deposits. so there could be no deduction under section 80v.8. the commissioner (appeals) dismissed the appeals. it was submitted before him that the ito cannot put in his own interpretation of section 80v since the commissioner in his order under section 264 has accepted in principle the claim. this submission was rejected by pointing out that the ito has been directed to examine the claim in accordance with law..... Judgment: 1. We find it convenient to dispose of these three appeals together since the issue to be decided is the same, viz., whether the assessee is entitled to deduction under Section 80V of the Income-tax Act, 1961 ('the Act') of the interest debited to his account in the books of the firm in which he is a partner. 2. The assessee is an individual. He was a partner in the firm M.C.Ghia & Co. His personal account in the firm has been treated somewhat like a current account. His income receipts are credited in that account. So too his drawings and payment of taxes. The partnership deed did not stipulate that partners would be debited with interest. Nevertheless, interest has been charged on the debit balances. The accounting years are the financial years. For the year ending 31-3-1976, summary of the account shows :Balance brought forward 16,32,856 Deposits 85,693Withdrawals 1,79,535 Share of profit 28,311Interest 1,47,257 3. For the other two accounting years also, the position was the same. There was debit balance to which interest was debited. For the year ended 31-3-1977, interest debited was Rs. 1,04,852 and for the year ended 31-3-1978 interest was Rs. 1,16,886. Part of the brought forward debit balance was said to be the withdrawals made on account of the payment of his personal income-tax over the years. 4. For the assessment years 1976-77 and 1977-78, the assessee did not make any claim for deduction under Section 80V before the ITO. However, he moved a revision petition under Section 264 of the Act. The Commissioner by his order dated 3-9-1979 set aside the assessments and directed the ITO to allow the deduction after verifying the assessee's claim and in accordance with law. In the assessment for 1978-79, the claim was made before the ITO himself. 5. For the assessment year 1976-77t the ITO held that under Section 80V only borrowals made for payment of taxes after 1-4-1976 would be eligible for deduction. Calculating the interest at the rate of 9 per cent he allowed a deduction of Rs. 2,085. 6. For the assessment year 1977-78, he found that nothing was drawn from the firm for payment of taxes. Therefore, nothing is allowable under Section 80V.7. For the assessment year 1978-79, he found the position to be the same as 1977-78 and there were no specific withdrawals for payment of taxes and that the drawings of the year were much less than the deposits. So there could be no deduction under Section 80V.8. The Commissioner (Appeals) dismissed the appeals. It was submitted before him that the ITO cannot put in his own interpretation of Section 80V since the Commissioner in his order under Section 264 has accepted in principle the claim. This submission was rejected by pointing out that the ITO has been directed to examine the claim in accordance with law which allowed the ITO to examine the legal aspects. Apart from this, the Commissioner (Appeals) found, on examination of the accounts that it represented a sort of current account and it cannot be said that the debits for tax payments are substantial borrowals made from the firm. The assessee was having substantial income in all these years. There was nothing to show, according to him, that the tax payments were made from borrowings. He agreed with the ITO on the interpretation of Section 80V also-the allowance under this section would be limited to only such interest as is payable on the borrowings made for taxes paid after 1-4-1976. 9. The assessee is on further appeal before us. We have heard Shri Gautam Doshi for the assessee and Shri Mahadeshwar for the department. What is the scope of Section 80V is the first issue to be decided. According to the ITO, the section is applicable only for tax payments effected from borrowals after 1-4-1976 i.e., the date on which Section 80V came into force. According to the assessee, it covers tax payments prior to 1-4-1976 also. The section reads as follows : In computing the total income of an assessee, there shall be allowed by way of deduction any interest paid by him in the previous year on any money borrowed for the payment of any tax due from him under this Act. There is only one condition laid down in the section. That is, the assessee must have borrowed and the borrowed funds must be utilized in the payment of taxes under the Act. There is nothing in the section which states that the taxes paid should have been after 1-4-1976. Unless we add 'after 1-4-1976' at the end of the section, it would not be possible to agree with the department's interpretation. It is well settled that a taxing statute must be read as such and nothing should be added or subtracted to the words. 10. Similarly, there is nothing in the section to suggest that the borrowings should be after the date the section has come into force. All that is required is there should be payment of interest during the accounting year. The taxes could have been paid prior to 1-4-1976. But the borrowals must be outstanding on 1-4-1976 and the assessee should be liable for payment of interest thereon. If these conditions are satisfied, deduction will be available under Section 80V.11. The next issue to be decided is, is there a borrowal at all There is a legal aspect to it as well as factual. We will first deal with the factual aspect. The Commissioner has given a finding there is not (sic). He points out that the drawings of this year is less than the receipts credited for the three years under consideration. But Shri Doshi referred to the opening debit balances for each of the years and stated that a large part of the opening balances refer to the drawings specifically made for payment of taxes. 12. The second aspect is this : Whether the overdrawing from his account in the partnership firm could be considered as borrowal. Can a partner be said to have borrowed from his firm 13. We take the factual aspect first. The ITO has held that there was no borrowing at all for two of the years on the ground that the drawings for the payment of taxes from the firm was much less than the receipts deposited to his credit therein. In other words, he has held that payment of taxes were effected by drawing on his own funds temporarily deposited with the firm. The Commissioner (Appeals) has also given a similar finding although he has not based his decision on that point. He says in para 5 of his order, "It cannot be said that the debits for tax payments in the account are substantially borrowals made by the appellant from this firm. The appellant is having substantial income in all these years in respect of which taxes have been paid. There is nothing to show that it cannot be said that these tax payments have come out of this income which has been credited in this account and may as well be elsewhere". To illustrate what the Commissioner (Appeals) says is this : For the year ended 31-3-1975, deposits made during the year was Rs. 8,94,994. Share of profit credited is Rs. 52,355. The tax payment of that year was only Rs. 0.57 lakh. This amount comes from the deposits of this year only and does not represent borrowals. 14. Shri Doshi's answer to this point is that if there had been drawings by a partner beyond the credits, it has to be treated as borrowals only. He relies on Section 11 of the Indian Partnership Act, 1932 and Clause 9 of the partnership deed. Now the issue is not, for the present, whether this represents borrowal or not. The issue is : From where the funds for payment of tax has come from-is it from the amounts deposited by the assessee in the course of the year or is it from the funds of the firm There is no clear answer given to this question. It is, of course, for the assessee to prove that the payment of taxes were effected from borrowed funds and not the amounts deposited in the course of the year. 15. The assumption on which Shri Doshi has made out his case can be understood in the following manner. Right from the accounting year ended 31-3-1962, the assessee has only a debit balance in the books of account of the firm. This debit balance which stood at 0.03 thousand on 31-3-1962 had risen to Rs. 18.74 lakhs by 31-3-1976. The payment of taxes and other withdrawals would necessarily increase the debit balances. Therefore, any withdrawal made from the firm, whether for payment of taxes or for personal expenses comes only from the borrowed funds. This submission assumes that after a debit balance comes into existence, each rupee deposited first would be appropriated to the payment of the borrowals. So there is nothing kept separate, which can be drawn upon. 16. We think the assessee is right. Now the firm is maintaining only one account. It is to this account the income receipts of the assessee are credited. In this background of fact that the assessee has a debit balance, the question would be how the receipts which are credited to his account is to be treated We are of the opinion that Section 60 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872, containing the rules of appropriation would be applicable. This section says that where the debtor has omitted to intimate and there are no other circumstances indicating to which debt the payment is to be applied, the creditor may apply it at his discretion to any lawful debt actually due and payable to him from the debtor. Since the account in the books of the firm is only one and since the amount is credited first to that account and in the absence of any clear indication either by words or by conduct, we will have to assume that the firm had applied the receipts only to the discharge of the existing debts. Thereafter if the assessee makes further drawings, it would be only a fresh borrowal. We are, therefore, unable to accept the department's contention that the tax payments made by the assessee have not come from the funds of the firm. 17. We will now consider the legal aspect, i.e., whether the overdrawings of a partner from the books of the firm would amount to borrowal within the meaning of Section 80V. We may make it clear at this stage itself that this question does not arise for the assessment year 1976-77, i.e., because the ITO himself has accepted that these overdrawings will amount to borrowal. He has, as a matter of fact, allowed the interest payment of Rs. 2,085 under Section 80V. That means the department accepted that this amounts to a borrowal. Therefore, for the assessment year 1976-77, it is not open for us to consider this aspect at all. It is however, to be considered only for the assessment years 1977-78 and 1978-79. 18. The expression 'monies borrowed' is in substance equal to the term 'borrowed money'. The expression 'borrowed money' has been subject-matter of a decision of the Supreme Court in the case of K.M.S.Lakshmanier & Sons v. CIT [1953] 23 ITR 202. It has been held therein that the term 'borrowed money' must be construed in its natural and ordinary meaning and implies the real borrowings and a real lending. So the question is whether the monies overdrawn by a partner would be a real lending. 19. The Supreme Court has an occasion to consider the relationship between a partner and the firm in the case of CIT v. R.M. Chidambaram Pillai [1977] 106 ITR 292. The Supreme Court observed : ...Here the first thing that we must grasp is that a firm is not a legal person even though it has some attributes of personality. Partnership is a certain relation between persons, the product of agreement to share the profits of a business. 'Firm' is a collective noun, a compendious expression to designate an entity, not a person. In income-tax law a firm is a unit of assessment, by special provisions, but is not a full person which leads to the next step that since a contract of employment requires two distinct persons, viz., the employer and the employee, there cannot be a contract of service, in strict law, between a firm and one of its partners....(p. 295) It would be seen from the above, that the Supreme Court is of the opinion that there cannot be a relationship of an employer and employee between a partner and the firm. Later quoting Lindley on Partnership, the Supreme Court observed : The firm is not recognised by English lawyers as distinct from the members composing it. In taking partnership accounts and in administering partnership assets, Courts have to some extent adopted the mercantile view and actions may now, speaking generally, be brought by or against partners in the name of their firm; but, speaking generally, the firm as such has no legal recognition. The law, ignoring the firm, looks to the partners composing it; any change amongst them destroys the identity of the firm; what is called the property of the firm is their property and what are called the debts and liabilities of the firm are their debts and their liabilities. In point of law, a partner may be the debtor or the creditor of his co-partners, but he cannot be either debtor or creditor of the firm of which he is himself a member, nor can he be employed by his firm, for a man cannot be his own employer. (p. 298) The above quotation cited with approval by the Supreme Court makes it clear that in law a partner cannot be a debtor or creditor of the firm of which he himself is a member. No higher authority is required to show that the assessee cannot be considered as a borrower from the firm. Neither can it be said there is any real lending in the sense in which the term borrowed monies have to be understood. Our finding in the above paras is only that the assessee has not and cannot legally be said to be a borrower of funds from the firm. By giving this decision, the point is not yet fully disposed of. The assessee as a matter of fact did not have funds with him. He has utilised the funds of the firm for discharging his liabilities. Insofar as the assessee had utilized the funds of someone else, he had become indebted to that other person. We have to find out who is that other person. We have further to give a finding whether it could be considered as a borrowing for the purpose of Section 80V. In order to give a finding on this point we have again to refer to the quotation from Lindley on Partnership. It will be seen from the quotation that such transaction should be considered as a borrowal from the co-partner. Now, on the basis of the ratio laid down therein, we must give a finding that there is a borrowal from the assessee's co-partner in this firm. There are two partners only in this firm, the assessee and his brother. We have to give a finding on the basis of the principles of law laid down by the Supreme Court that the creditor is the partner. As far as the co-partner is concerned, the conditions of Section 80V will be satisfied. He is a separate person and the assessee can have dealings with this partner. As a matter of fact also the funds must be held to have been received from the partner through the firm. 20. It will be noticed that the findings given by us have deviated from the prayers made by the assessee. The assessee had all along been submitting that the creditor is the firm. We have not accepted that submission but have substituted another creditor in the firm's place. In our opinion, it is open for the Tribunal to do so. The assessee's prayer in the grounds of appeal is only one. He wants a deduction under Section 80V. Who is the creditor is a matter of details. It is open for the Tribunal to arrive at a different finding than what was submitted at the time of the hearing. 21. The above finding is also supported by the assessments of the firm and the partners. The interest paid by the assessee to the firm is the income of the firm, in the allocation of profits, however, 50 per cent of the profit gets allocated to the assessee. It would be seen, therefore, that although initially the assessee is debited to the full extent of the interest. In actual fact, the assessee is out of the pocket only to the extent of 50 per cent. The balance has come back to him by way of share of profit. Therefore, the real expenditure of the assessee is only 50 per cent of the interest debited. This also supports our finding that the borrowals are only from the co-partner and that could be only to the extent of the co-partner's interest in the partnership firm. Since the assessee and the partner share profits and losses equally, 50 per cent of the interest is really not an expenditure at all for the assessee. 22. Under these circumstances, we are of the opinion that the assessee would be entitled to a deduction of half the amount claimed by him for the three years. 23. We may consider some of the authorities cited before us. Shri Doshi has cited the decision of the Punjab & Haryana High Court in the case of Pepsu Road Transport Corporation. v. CIT [1981] 130 ITR 18. This case is not dealing between a partner and a firm and, therefore, it has no relevance on the issue before us. No doubt, the case deals with the term 'capital borrowed' and had considered contract between a statutory corporation and State Government. We have already quoted a Supreme Court decision for the purpose of understanding the expression 'borrowed monies'. The decision cited, therefore, need not be considered in detail. 24. Shri Doshi has also made a reference to Section 11 of the Partnership Act. This section merely states that the partners may determine their rights and duties for contract. This is also not very relevant. Neither is Clause 9 of the partnership deed very relevant. We also reject the submission made by him that it is not open for the income-tax authorities and, consequently, for the Tribunal to go into the issue whether there is a borrowal at all on the ground that the Commissioner in his order under Section 264 of the Act has already upheld so. We agree with the Commissioner (Appeals) in his findings on this point. 25. We will now consider the objection of the department. In paras 18 and 19 of this order, we have given a finding that the creditor is the copartner. The objection is that the co-partner's accounts have not been scrutinised. If the co-partner has also a debit balance, then he cannot be considered to be a creditor of the assessee. We agree that the decision given by us is based only on the legal principle laid down by the Supreme Court. We have not called for and verified whether the co-partner has a credit balance or a debit balance. Let us assume that the co-partner has only a debit balance. The question would still be from where the funds have come, which had been used by the assessee for the payment of taxes. In case the copartners have got credit balances, to that extent the funds have come from them. In case they have no credit balances, then the funds have come from the creditors of the firm. The firm is under those circumstances used as a pipe to provide the funds to the partners. The decision given by us that the assessee is entitled to the deduction does not require to be altered. The money does not belong to the assessee and, therefore, he have borrowed the same. If there are no funds with the partners, then the monies have come from the creditors of the firm through the media of the firm. In any case, the assessee would be entitled to the deduction under Section 80V. Save Judgments// Add Notes // Store Search Result sets // Organizer Client Files // Start your Free Trial Today! admin [at] legalcrystal [dot] com Bengaluru, Karnataka, Bharata LegalCrystal offers you a simple, easy and effortless way to search for precedents & the related laws governing the society Copyright 2020 © GAViSTA TECH - Powered by GAViSTA TECH
Latest news in Nigeria Nigeria 2019 Elections Download Nigerian Music Amala TV You are here: Home / NEWS / Popular Nigerian pastor's church investigated by City of London police for Fraud Popular Nigerian pastor's church investigated by City of London police for Fraud February 17, 2017 by Amala Writer Leave a Comment The City of London police are investigating an alleged fraud involving a former premier league footballer who lost £3.9 million from Kingsway International Christian Centre, owned by Matthew Ashimolowo. According to the UK Guardian, the footballer lost the money to one of Britain's richest evangelical churches in a "disastrous investment scheme". The criminal investigation follows a Charity Commission report into "mismanagement" at the church, which invested £5 million with Richard Rufus, former Charlton Athletic player. In 2015, a civil court judge indicted Rufus for operating a Ponzi-style scheme between 2007 and 2011, losing or spending £8 million from several investors. Rufus was a leading member of the KICC. Quoting documents it obtained, the newspaper said the church, which is populated by Africans and Caribbeans, collected £5.8 million from its members in 2015. RELATED: Bukola Saraki appointed as DG of Atiku Abubakar's Presidential campaign In 2009 and 2010, the trustees reportedly agreed to give Rufus £5 million to invest after he promised them returns of 55 percent a year at a time when interest rates were less than 1 percent. As well as millions in donations from churchgoers – which were boosted by gift aid tax relief – it had recently received £10 million from the London Development Agency, a public body that needed to demolish the church's then home in east London to build the Olympic Park. "Detectives from City of London police's fraud teams are investigating," a police spokesman confirmed. There have been no arrests. RELATED: "To thrive as a woman in the industry isn't exactly a stroll in the park."- Singer Simi Reminisces the Success of her last Album In a damning set of conclusions published in December, the Charity Commission said the trustees "did not exercise sufficient care" when they gave Rufus the church's money. The regulator said they failed to check if Rufus had any investment qualifications or experience and gave little thought to the extraordinarily high rate of return Rufus was promising. The church's senior management team concluded his "personal guarantee makes this as safe an investment as any" and produced a report on the investment that included no checks on Rufus's past investment performance or any references from clients. It is the second time the Charity Commission has had to investigate the church. In 2005, when it was known as the King's Ministries Trust, the regulator ordered Ashimolowo to repay £200,000 after it emerged he used church assets to buy a £13,000 Florida timeshare and spent £120,000 on his birthday celebrations, including £80,000 on a car. RELATED: Are you part of the MMM gang? You have to read this shocking revelation (Photos) New trustees were appointed and Ashimolowo was removed from his role as chief executive. Last month, KICC issued a statement of Ashimolowo in the deal. The statement signed by Dipo Oluyomi, chief executive officer and James McGlashan, chief operating officer for the church said the investment was made seven and a half years ago. KICC admitted that its trustees made the decision to invest in the scheme, but said Ashimolowo had nothing to do with it. Source: The Cable Filed Under: NEWS Tagged With: Amala gist, kicc, pastor, scam, UK Advertise on Amala.ng and reach hundreds of thousands of Nigerians. Click here to contact us. Barcelona Vs Liverpool: Who Will Win Tonight? Predict and Win Airtime! NNN, See the list of all new Ponzi schemes in Nigeria Borno State Govt Allegedly Empowers Youths with Shoe Repairing Kit Forget Bobrisky's cream, see the five fruits that can make your skin shine Arsenal VS Valencia: Who Will Win? Predict And Win Airtime Now (Limited offer). Time limit is exhausted. Please reload the CAPTCHA. − 5 = Follow Amala.ng on Follow @amalang01 epom Ned Nwoko, Regina Daniels' husband, Loses Case at Supreme Court The Murder of Pa Fasoranti's Daughter: Nigerian Senate calls for National Security Summit Wendy Williams Shares Photo of herself Hooked up to Lymphedema Machine 'I regret not being serious in my education' – Yvonne Nelson Says Seven People Confirmed Dead in Jos Building Collapse WWE: Stone Cold Steve Austin Set for Return to the Ring Aaron Ramsey, former Arsenal midfielder, Unveiled as a Juventus player and will earn £440,000 a week Oyo state governor, Seyi Makinde Declares Asset Worth over N48 Billion, Urges others to do so Adorable photos of Patoranking and his daughter Wilmer, she takes her first steps New Video Alert: Zlatan feat. Tiwa Savage – Shotan Amala © 2019; Subscribe For Gist Join to receive latest news and gist from Amala.ng.
ACT NOW: The Eastern Diocese's Primate Bishop Daniel Findikyan appeals to all our people to act for the defense and preservation of Artsakh and Armenia. Here's how: (1) ADVOCATE: The Armenian Assembly of America and the Armenian National Committee are urging Congress and the Administration to condemn the Azeri aggression and demand its immediate cessation; to end U.S. financial aid to Azerbaijan; and to rein in Turkey from its military support of Azerbaijan. Both ANCA and the Assembly have made it easy for you to make your voice heard in support of these goals. Click these links to access their websites: https://anca.org and https://armenian-assembly.org (2) DONATE: Armenia's government is looking to the diaspora for financial as well as moral support. Contributions can be directed to the Armenia Fund, on its new and secure website: https://www.armeniafund.org You may also contribute by phone at (800) 888-8897. The Eastern Diocese will direct its fundraising efforts to Armenia Fund, with all American-Armenian organizations united in this approach. All funds collected will support civilian humanitarian aid. (3) MEDICAL SUPPLIES: Those in a position to donate such medical supplies should contact Armenia Fund at (818) 243-6222, to find out how to be of help. Click here to read Bishop Daniel's message.
Week seven on the Kansas side means the first part of the season ends and the real part begins. It's where the boys are separated from the men, where teams begin to dream of hoisting a state championship while others wonder what could have been. Two teams coming into Friday night with high hopes were Olathe South and Gardner-Edgerton. Both teams generated a buzz around the game and both had star collegiate recruits playing. Dealing with the cold temperatures Gardner-Edgerton ran past the Falcons 52-7 on the night led by Kansas commit Traevohn Wrench who finished the night with 240 yards rushing off 24 carries and six, yes six touchdowns. "Traevohn had a big night for us but he had some help from the line," said head coach Marvin Diener. Wrench started the fireworks early as he scored his first touchdown of the night just 55 seconds into the game. Wrench took a pitch 43-yards for the touchdown giving the Trailblazers an early 6-0 lead after a missed PAT. Six minutes later and Wrench would strike again, this time from just one yard out. Though Wrench was torching the Falcons on offense, the Trailblazer defense was making noise of their own forcing Olathe South to go 2 of 11 on third down. "Our defense did a great job of keeping our offense on the field and giving us great field position all night," said Diener. After Gardner-Edgerton forced a turnover on downs Wrench would find his way to the end zone yet again in the first quarter as he sprinted past Falcon defenders 67 yards for the touchdown giving the Trailblazers a 19-0 lead at the end of the first quarter. With 11:53 left in the first half Wrench would continue his strong night with his fourth touchdown of the half coming from nine yards. After trading punts for the next 11 minutes the Trailblazers would tack on one more touchdown in the half as Marshall Wade would bulldoze his way past South defenders on fourth down finding the end zone giving Gardner Edgerton a 33-0 lead at the half. The second half would be much in the same as Gardner Edgerton continued to roll. Wrench would pick up right where he left off scoring touchdown number five with 9:34 left in the third quarter. Wrench took the handoff one-yard through a tough defensive line from South for the score. Wrench's final touchdown on the night would come with 3:59 left in the third giving the Trailblazers a 46-0 lead. South would get on the board with 10:12 left in the game as Cameron White sprinted in from eight yards out preventing the shut out. Gardner Edgerton would score one more time on the night when Anthony Cisneros scored on a 16-yard touchdown run providing the final tally of 52-7. With the win Edgerton jumps out to a 1-0 record in district play and gets a coveted 13 points on the week. Up next for the Trailblazers is a home game with Olathe North, which will likely be for a district championship. Olathe South will remain at home in what has become a do or die game for their season against Olathe Northwest as the loser will likely be eliminated from playoff contention.
Does Quantum Physics Render Transubstantiation Meaningless? by Stephen M. Barr 5 . 25 . 10 Catholic World News reports that Fr. Michael Kelly, S.J. the CEO of the Asian Catholic News agency, finds the Catholic doctrine of "transubstantiation" meaningless in this "post-Newtonian world of quantum physics". Since I use quantum mechanics every day in my work, I think I can match my understanding of this post-Newtonian world of quantum physics against Fr. Kelly's, and I do not find the doctrine "meaningless". Here is what CWN reports : Stating that "Catholics can become fanatical about one form of the Body of Christ in the bread of the Eucharist as the REAL presence of Christ," Father Michael Kelly, the Jesuit CEO of the Asian Catholic news agency UCA News, criticized the doctrine of transubstantiation in a May 24 column. In his column— a critique of the new, more accurate liturgical translations that reflect the content and dignity of the original Latin— Father Kelly writes: "Regrettably, all too frequently, the only Presence focused on is Christ's presence in the elements of bread and wine. Inadequately described as the change of the 'substance' (not the 'accidents') of bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ, the mystery of the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist carries the intellectual baggage of a physics no one accepts. Aristotelian physics makes such nice, however implausible and now unintelligible, distinctions. They are meaningless in the post-Newtonian world of quantum physics, which is the scientific context we live in today." It was a standard maneuver of dissident theologians in the 1960s to affect incomprehension of binding doctrine rather than honestly and forthrightly saying that they rejected it. No one is fooled by that transparent ploy anymore, and one assumes that Fr. Kelly realizes that. It must be, therefore, that he is genuinely confused. I will try to unconfuse him. The Church has made it clear that one does not have to accept all of Aristotelian philosophy to accept the doctrine of transubstantiation. The substance of the doctrine (so to speak) is easily explained without the Aristotelian terminology. To say that 'the accidents of bread and wine' remain after consecration means that empirically the consecrated elements are completely indistinguishable from bread and wine. They taste like bread and wine; they look like bread and wine; they would, if made to react chemically or placed in a mass spectrograph, behave in every way just as bread and wine do. To say that 'the substance' of the consecrated elements is the Body and Blood of Christ, means that in reality the elements are no longer bread and wine but are the Body and Blood of Christ. If one looks at the consecrated elements and asks 'What are these?", the correct answer (according to the doctrine of transubstantiation) is "These are the Body and Blood of Christ." If one asks, "What do these appear to be under any empirical test?", the answer is "bread and wine." Basically, that is all there is to it. The dogmatic definition used Aristotelian terminology to express this, but it can be expressed without that terminology. Some alternative beliefs to transubstantiation are the following: (a) The consecrated elements not only appear to be but are bread and wine, and only symbolize the Body and Blood of Christ. (b) The consecrated elements are not in themselves the Body and Blood of Christ, but spiritually and in effect are for the believer who consumes them, in the sense that when the believer consumes them he is united in a spiritual manner with the Body of Christ. (The corollary being that if the elements are not consumed or are consumed by a non-believer, they are not the Body and Blood of Christ. Thus the "presence" of Christ depends on both what is done with the consecrated elements and on the internal disposition of the recipient.) (c) The consecrated elements are still bread and wine, but in some way the Body and Blood of Christ is also present with them or in them in a manner that is objective in that it does not depend on the disposition of the recipient ("consubstantiation"). In short, one can explain the doctrine of transubstantiation and distinguish it from other beliefs about the Eucharist without any use of the Aristotelian apparatus. I don't know what quantum mechanics has to do with any of this. If anything, quantum mechanics makes a straightforward connection between what appears empirically and what is "really there" more obscure than it was in Newtonian physics, and to that extent would make it easier rather than harder to affirm the doctrine. Articles by Stephen M. Barr Filter First Thoughts Posts Month Any January February March April May June July August September October November December Year Any 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003
DARCO - Reign of Elements is a game developed and published by TP-Studios. It was released on Steam Early Access on May 4, 2018. After the greatest human invention, mankind was at the peak of its civilization, being able to create all sorts of technical wonders. Then, however, a horrible disaster struck, that flooded the earth and rendered the few remaining patches of land uninhabitable. Foreseeing this tragic event, the greatest engineers built habitats with ecosystems to their liking in the form of huge, flying ships. This fleet, being able to escape the dangers of the flood, would become the peaceful home of mankind for centuries. This changed when hordes of dragons began attacking the ships, and thus the Dragon War began. Through the ingenuity of humankind, mechanical beasts were created resembling animals, which were living in these habitats centuries back, to combat their new foes. This wasn't enough, though: humanity fought until no warriors were left, and the few who survived were left to one basic principle: Every man for himself. Humanity was defeated, the fleet scattered, but the automated factories inside the ships continued producing beasts. With no continued maintenance throughout the chaos of the war, errors in production were bound to occur. The beasts malfunctioned and began attacking everything living and breathing. You are one of the few survivors, a mechanic, of what was once a great Victorian civilization. As your day starts and you are out completing an important quest, you come across a young dragon. You pity the injured cub, so you decide to save it and from this moment on it never leaves your side, and you eventually realize: this dragon is your new companion. Take care of it, and you will grow stronger together. When you arrive in the world of DARCO, you are given a choice of which elemental dragon you would like to start with. This starter dragon is your companion, never leaving your side throughout the game. That doesn't stop you though from creating dragons and your own small dragon army. The mechanic beasts inhabiting the ships are a continuous danger together with other players. With your skills you are able to refactor some of them for your needs, even though only for a limited time. You have to fight starvation and dehydration as your greatest enemy. Since you are not able to come back into the ship due to a lock down, you must learn to hunt and build yourself a home. Survival gets easier as soon as you can build your tower and with that better equipment. You can't hide in your fortress though, since you need to explore other ships to find new resources and confront the growing dangers. Play solo or team up with a friends into alliances, to put the world at your feet! This page was last edited on 24 July 2018, at 22:39.
When Moses first encounters God at the burning bush, he asks, "What is your name?" God responds, "I will be who I will be." The Hebrew—Eh'yeh asher eh'yeh—is tricky but God's self-revealed name is clearly and unequivocally a verb rather than a noun. The God of the Torah is dynamic, less a Being and more a Becoming. Surely we can do better than this. We can recognize that gender is complicated. We can trust people to know best who they are and where they belong—and welcome them accordingly. We can celebrate ourselves as being in the image of the One who is constantly becoming—a marvelous gift to all of us, lesbian and gay and straight and transgender and everything in between. And for God's sake, we can let people pee in peace. Like Rabbi Hirsch—and generations before him—many of us find inspiration in the mountains. This week's Torah portion, Behar, means "on the mountain"; it reminds us that we received the Torah in the wilderness, on a mountaintop. Ezekiel excoriates false prophets as those who have "not gone up into the gaps." The gaps are the thing. The gaps are the spirit's one home, the altitudes and latitudes so dazzlingly spare and clean that the spirit can discover itself for the first time like a once-blind man unbound. The gaps are the clefts in the rock where you cower to see the back parts of God; they are the fissures between mountains and cells the wind lances through, the icy narrowing fjords splitting the cliffs of mystery. Go up into the gaps. If you can find them; they shift and vanish too. Stalk the gaps. Squeak into a gap in the soil, turn and unlock—more than a maple—a universe. This is how you spend this afternoon, and tomorrow morning, and tomorrow afternoon. Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you. What an opportunity we have this coming week—to read our portion, Behar, "on the mountain" in the beautiful Idaho mountains outside McCall at our congregational retreat—accompanied by the music of Nefesh Mountain! We raise our eyes to the mountains, indeed. In baseball, even the best hitters fail seven out of ten times. As perennial all-star and future hall of famer Ichiro Suzuki notes, baseball is a game of mostly failure, punctuated by the occasional success. Even the very best players fail to hit the ball four times out of ten. In this sense, the game very much echoes the Torah itself, which recounts failure after failure. Human beings miss the mark more often than not, and even God makes a colossal error, despairing of the creation, destroying everything in the flood, and then regretting the destruction. But like elite baseball players, our challenge is to accept our propensity to fail—and then learn from our mistakes. This week's Torah portion, Emor, discusses the role and limitations of the Kohen Gadol, the High Priest. It notes that he cannot come into contact with any dead bodies, even in the course of burying his own mother and father. He must subsume his personal circumstances—even intense grief—for the sake of the Jewish community that he is appointed to serve. The words engraved on the gold plate that adorns his priestly turban sum it up—he is to be Kodesh l'Adonai—Holy to God. This week, consider: How can you dream big and aspire to change the world while still recognizing that failure is unavoidable—and a learning opportunity? Gladwell's point is critical. It's true—no person is an island. Every success that we enjoy is, to an extraordinary extent, built upon the labors of others who grow our food, weave our clothing, build our schools, clean up after us, and drive us to countless lessons and rehearsals. The notion of the autonomous self is a narcissistic lie. Which brings us to the "golden rule" in this week's Torah portion, Kedoshim. God commands us: "Love your neighbor as yourself." Traditional Jewish commentary recognizes that this teaching raises almost endless difficulties. Who is defined as a "neighbor"? How can a feeling—in this case, love—be conjured on command? And what, per se, is the "self"? Philosopher Moses Mendelssohn suggests that this passage is not teaching us how or how much to love our neighbor at all; he translates the phrase: "Love your neighbor, who is like you." In other words, we should act lovingly toward others because we are inextricably bound to them. We are our neighbors. Our neighbors are us. We are all part of the intricate web of nature and nurture, genetics and culture that we might also call "God." We should love our neighbors as ourselves because who they are is an essential part of who we are becoming. This week, consider: How can you better see your successes as the product of countless neighbors, known and unknown, over the course of your lifetime and theirs? What do you do in the aftermath of an unspeakable catastrophe? This is the question raised by this week's Torah portion. Its very name—and opening words—Acharei Mot—raise the quandary, as it means "after the death." In this case, the death is that of Aaron's two sons Nadav and Avihu, cut down in the prime of their lives when they bring an unusual offering before God and are, in turn, consumed by a fire that leaps forth from the Ark of the Covenant. It is one of the most tragic and inexplicable events in the Torah. The commentators make many efforts to explain it, but none suffice; in the end, we are left with Aaron's stunned silence and raw grief. But what follows in the aftermath that our parsha describes this week? Not—as one might expect—details of a funeral or sitting shivah, though one can imagine those things happening. Instead, after briefly recalling Nadav and Avihu's deaths, the portion goes on to offer a meticulous description of what Aaron and his remaining sons, the priests/cohanim, did to minister to the Israelites on Yom Kippur. Why is this? I suspect that Torah is reminding us that while we must grieve our losses (and our tradition gives us a very elaborate structure for doing just this), in the end, the ultimate response to catastrophe is to return to life, to reaffirm our commitment to the living by tending to the ordinary details that can provide a surprising measure of both comfort and meaning. Judaism could have died with Nadav and Avihu: Aaron and his family might have easily refused to ever enter the Tent of Meeting again and thereby destroyed the ritual at the community's core. But they didn't. They wept and mourned—and then returned to the Divine Service, to the sacred task of tending to the Jewish people and their needs. How fitting, then, that we read this portion this Shabbat, just two days after Yom HaShoah, our Holocaust memorial day. We recall the immeasurable tragedy that destroyed so many of our people just seventy years ago. We remember. And then we get back to the business of healing our community through the timeless Jewish deeds of learning Torah, of spiritual service, and of performing acts of loving kindness. Next week we will celebrate Yom HaAtzmaut—Israel Independence Day—and then read portion Kedoshim, which means, "holiness." After the death—remembrance, and then rebuilding our Jewish state, our Jewish souls, all the while striving for holiness.
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He has been the constant on the Ravens defense for the last decade and a half. And Terrell Suggs is showing no sign of stopping any time soon. "Despite everything I'm still here. Two Achilles, two biceps, pulled pectoral and I'm still a Raven," said the veteran linebacker about his injuries. And Suggs is still the unquestioned leader of the club. Now in his 16th NFL season it's been every day with only one organization. Suggs was rather reflective on Monday about his time in pro football. "That's very humbling and flattering because I've learned that not everybody gets to do that," he said about playing his entire career in Baltimore. There's no doubt in his mind, as long as he laces them up he plans on wearing purple. "I plan on being a Raven as long as I'm playing football," added Suggs. But when is that day coming? When will be the day he hangs up the cleats and calls it a career? Suggs said he hasn't even entertained the thought of retirement. As for this year's team, the seven-time pro-bowler said its defense has something he's never seen before in Baltimore. Training camp continues for Suggs and the rest of the Ravens on Tuesday morning at 11:35 a.m.
HIPAA Investigations by the Office of Civil Rights: January 25 Webinar TMLT will hold a January 25 webinar on violations related to HIPAA investigations by the Office of Civil Rights: Understand what the OCR is focusing on in its investigations. Explain how to prevent the most common violations cited by the OCR in 2021. Discuss the importance of cooperating with the OCR and responding to their… TOA Supports TMA's Lawsuit Challenging the Median In-Network Rate The Texas Orthopaedic Association submitted a supporting declaration in support of the Texas Medical Association's lawsuit alleging that the rule created by the federal agencies responsible for implementing the No Surprises Act incorrectly directs arbitrators to determine appropriate out-of-network payments by relying primarily on the median in-network rate. The American Medical Association and American Hospital… U.S. House Addresses Medicare Cuts The U.S. House passed a stand-alone Medicare package on December 7 that would address a significant portion of the 9.75% physician Medicare cuts that are scheduled to go into effect on January 1, 2022. In short, the 9.75% Medicare cut would become a .75% cut on January 1, 2022. The bill now moves to the Senate for… The Prior Authorization Burden CMS Extends Hip-and-Knee Replacement Demonstration for Three Years The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized an extension of the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) demonstration on April 29, and the extension will add an additional three years through 2024. The extension will only apply to hospitals in the mandatory portions of the demonstration. Click here to read CMS's final rule.… TOA's Musculoskeletal Primer for the 2021 Texas Legislature AAOS Announces Study of Stem Cells & Biologics Click here or on graphic to learn more! Patient Perception of Surgeon Reimbursement Click here or on graphic to enlarge! Click here or on graphic to enlarge! Orthopaedic Residents Advocate on Capitol Hill TOA takes three orthopaedic residents to Washington, DC every June to visit with lawmakers about musculoskeletal issues that affect Texas patients. TOA's goal is to introduce advocacy issues to residents at an early age. Jordan Handcox, MD of San Antonio, Dylan Homen, MD of Lubbock and Max Danilevich, MD of Galveston were the three residents… Texas Becomes First Legislature to Address Patient Reported Outcomes Texas became the first legislature to pass a bill related to patient reported outcomes (PROs) for musculoskeletal care through SB 55, which was introduced by Senator Judith Zaffirini (D-Laredo) and Representative JD Sheffield, DO (R-Gatesville). Governor Greg Abbott signed the bill into law on June 15, 2017. SB 55 directs the two of the state's… Pain Relief Issues in Orthopaedics Both the Texas Orthopaedic Association (TOA) and American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) have addressed the opioid crisis at recent meetings. Austin orthopaedic surgeon David Ring, MD, PhD presented at TOA's 2017 Annual Conference: "The Opioid Crisis: The Future Role of Orthopaedic Surgeons in Solving the Crisis." Dr. Ring shared a pain relief video at… Orthopaedics in Texas The Texas Legislature Passed the Nation's Model Prior Authorization Law HB 3459, which passed in May 2021, will: Prohibit a PPO or HMO regulated by the state of Texas from requiring a prior authorization for a physician who meets certain thresholds. If during a prior six-month period a physician was approved for at least 90… TOA Supports Prescription Monitoring Program Efforts in the Texas Legislature Anti-discrimination Statement (ACA) October 3, 2016 Dear TOA Member: On May 18, 2016, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a final rule regarding the Affordable Care Act's non-discrimination policies in Section 1557. Click here to read a very lengthy summary from the Kaiser Foundation. The provision requires covered entities (physician practices) to post… Texas Orthopaedic Association Bylaws TEXAS ORTHOPAEDIC ASSOCIATION, INC. BYLAWS ARTICLE IThe name of this organization shall be the TEXAS ORTHOPAEDIC ASSOCIATION, INC. (hereinafter called the "Association"). ARTICLE IIPurposeSection 1. The purpose of this organization is to: Foster cooperation among the orthopaedic surgeons in the State of Texas. Encourage scientific, educational, and charitable endeavors which will promote and advance the… San Antonio – Monday, April 5 Have you paid your TOA dues for 2021? If you aren't sure, email [email protected]. If you have an interest in contributing to the Texas Orthopaedic Association Political Action Committee (TOPAC), click here to contribute. Click here to send a message to your state lawmakers about opioids today. Click here to fill out the CME evaluation so…
40 Secrets You Never Knew About Gilligan's Island - History All Day Secrets You Never Knew About the Stars of Gilligan's Island By: Lindsey Charleston \| Last updated: Nov 25, 2022 Originally Published on pastchronicles.com and repurposed with permissions Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale about the strife behind the scenes on Gilligan's Island. Things are often not ideal on set, even after the director has called a cut. Who would have ever guessed? Source: Bettmann/Getty Image You may have laughed along with Gilligan, Skipper, Lovey and all the gang for years, but you probably never knew these odd secrets about the actors who played them. The Name Gilligan Was Chosen at Random You'd think that a leading character's name, especially one that appears in the show's title, would be carefully considered. Source: IMDb Not where director Sherwood Schwartz was concerned! He just dialed a random number in the phone book — and the name of the recipient was Gilligan. If Schwarz's finger had dropped on Kowalczyk, we wonder if the program would have been a smash. The Plot Was Based on a Lucille Ball Film If you've ever seen the Lucille Ball film Five Came Back, the idea of Gilligan's Island will be familiar to you. Not only did the beloved comedy draw inspiration from the Bible, but it was also influenced by the 1939 film, in which a group of survivors of an aircraft accident get stuck in the Amazon. Source: Alex Kahle Now that the name of the series and plot of the series were defined, they needed a top-tier cast if they truly wanted to make the show memorable. Let's look into some of the behind-the-scenes cast secrets next! The Original Theme Music Was Created by John Williams John Williams is now universally considered one of the finest composers of all time for Hollywood films. But back when was he only Johnny Williams? Source: Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic/Getty Images Surprisingly, the makers of Gilligan's Island passed him up. Before the sitcom aired, a different composer was enlisted, and the theme song in the show's premiere is completely different. The Lagoon in the Pacific Ocean Was Really in California An undiscovered Pacific Ocean island? Regrettably, this is not the case! Following the cancellation of the initial intention to film in Malibu, CBS built a set for the program on their Studio City property in California. You might have played castaway yourself if you were lucky enough to visit the site. The set lasted almost 30 years before they paved over the paradise to put up a parking lot. Natalie Schafer Wasn't Optimistic About the Show's Chances Just to be fair, CBS execs weren't the only ones who thought Gilligan's Island was a dud. Natalie Schafer, who played Lovey Howell, was a skeptic. Source: Sitcoms Online She reportedly didn't think a sitcom with such a ridiculous premise would stay the course. But we couldn't fathom anyone else playing Lovey, so we're delighted she stayed. Two Main Characters are Absent from the First Season Credits Russell Johnson and Dawn Wells may have been disappointed when they first watched the opening credits. Why? Do you recall the lyrics of that memorable theme song? The Professor and Mary Ann are merely referred to as "the rest" in the lyrics, while the remainder of the characters were given specific names. This was remedied in the second season, after Bob Denver stood up for them. A Grim Satire Followup Was Created In 2003, Tom Carson of Esquire Magazine recreated the Gilligan's Island story, and it was rather bleak. True fans of the original would not have been pleased with how it went down. In the dark parody, Mary Ann has an affair, Lovey admits that her marriage was a ruse, and the Professor is involved in the atomic weapon development that dropped on Nagasaki. What about Gilligan? He spends time in a mental facility where he is subject to electroshock therapy. We're glad that's not what really happened! Dawn Wells Was Not Allowed to Sing Dawn Wells had a lot of tricks up her sleeve, but singing was not one of them. Jackie DeShannon was hired to dub over her portions in songs like, "For He's A Jolly Good Fellow" because the actress was tone-deaf. Source: Facebook/Gilligan's Island The producers heard Wells' original voice in an episode where Mary Ann's caterwauling was part of the plot, and quickly realized they needed to dub her from then on. Whew! Gilligan Was on the Verge of Getting a Dinosaur as a Pet If Hunt Stromberg, Jr. had his way, Gilligan's Island may have developed into a mini-Jurassic Park series. Source: SAM PANTHAKY/AFP/Getty Images Yes, this is true! The producers came up with the brilliant idea of giving Gilligan a pet dinosaur. Budget limitations, much to Schwartz's relief, eventually put an end to that odd concept. Ginger Wasn't Well-liked on Site Tina Louise's desire to separate herself from the show explains why she was not a well-liked character during production. While the rest of the Gilligan's Island ensemble used to laugh and joke together in between takes, Louise, according to Bob Denver, preferred to be alone. Gilligan's Given Name is Still a Point of Contention Have you ever wanted to know what Gilligan's first name is? Is it possible that Gilligan's first name is Gilligan? In a press statement, Sherwood Schwartz, the show's creator, referred to the hero as Willy, although this was not considered an "official" response. But wait a minute! The only characters that were called by their surnames were the super-rich Howells, according to Schwartz. So what's really true? Carroll O'Connor Was Nearly Cast as The Skipper After a Successful Audition Even though O'Connor made the shortlist, producers were concerned that his interpretation of the role was not appealing enough. That is probably for the best because we can not picture The Skipper ever uttering "groinacologist." After bringing the grumpy Archie Bunker to life, Carroll O'Connor became a household name. He came close to landing his big break some years prior when he auditioned for the role of The Skipper on Gilligan's Island. The Show Continued to Live Even though Gilligan's Island ended in 1967, its characters continued to appear on other television series for many years. The Skipper, the Professor, Mary Ann, and Gilligan all showed up on ALF in the 1980s for an episode in which an extraterrestrial falls in love with the show. Roseanne included several cast members in a scene. Oh, and for a McDonalds' ad, Denver recreated his most famous part. Yes, that was Gilligan chomping on some French fries! Schafer Performed All of Her Stunts Herself Throughout her time as Lovey, Natalie Schafer demonstrated that age is just a number. And although she was in her 60s, the actress was willing to perform her own stunts. Source: Bettmann/Getty Images Whenever Lovey was diving into the mud or lagoon, Schafer was putting her own life on the line. Swimming and eating ice cream, according to the actress, helped her stay in shape. It Had to Compete with Similar Sitcoms Jim Aubrey, the president of CBS, was not an admirer of the show. He wasn't a fan of "the whole island thing." He believed the program would be better suited if shot in a posh resort. Aubrey then commissioned another sitcom based on the same concept to support his argument. The Baileys of Balboa, on the other hand, was canceled after only one season. Aubrey lost his job as a result of that disaster. A Few Bloopers Made the Cut You may have noticed one or two bloopers if you have watched Gilligan's Island over and over. Parts of Los Angeles, for example, hang above the trees of the ostensibly uninhabited island in "The Friendly Physician." In "They are Off and Running", the single Gilligan may also be seen wearing Bob Denver's wedding ring! Tina Louise Regretted Doing the Show Years later, the film legend said that the show had ruined her career. What's more, to cap it all off? Tina Louise's agency allegedly informed her that Gilligan's Island was her vehicle to stardom. When she discovered she had to share equal screen time with six other cast members, the actress was taken aback. What's worse, Louise is alleged to have had several disagreements with producers regarding her role. Perhaps that's why she didn't appear in the movie? Filming Was Stopped When JFK Was Assassinated After the assassination of JFK, the cast and crew of Gilligan's Island were forced to take a hiatus from filming the pilot. Source: Silver Screen Collection/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Following the terrible incident, the US authorities shut down the Hawaii navy facility where the crew was shooting for 48 hours. Schafer Claimed to be Younger than She Was Even though Natalie Schafer and her on-screen spouse Jim Backus appeared to be the same age, we have some startling news for you. During filming, the Lovey actress was a full 12 years older than Backus. Scandal! Schafer did everything she could to obscure this, even stipulating in her contract that the camera must not zoom in too close, so viewers would not see her wrinkles. The Original Option for the Role of Gilligan Was Jerry Van Dyke Although Bob Denver made the character of Gilligan his own, he was not the producers' first choice. Source: Jeff Daly/FilmMagic/Getty Images Jerry Van Dyke, Dick's younger brother, was the original choice for the role, but he turned down the program because the pilot screenplay was "The worst thing [he had] ever read." Van Dyke did, however, go on to be featured in the ludicrous My Mother the Car, so perhaps he did not make the wrong decision. In Real Life, Natalie Schafer is Rich Natalie Schafer may not have had to stretch too far to play Lovey. When she landed the role of Thurston Howell III's selfish wife, the actress was already a very affluent woman. Schafer and her husband made their fortune in Beverly Hills' postwar real estate market. (There was no news on whether the couple received an oil business as a wedding gift though!) Ginger Was Almost Portrayed by Jayne Mansfield Tina Louise is the only person that could play Ginger. But, believe it or not, she was on the verge of losing the job to one of the era's most prominent sex symbols. The producers contacted Jayne Mansfield to play the movie actress, but her third husband urged her to decline. Russell Johnson Used to be a Member of the Military Russell Johnson had a successful career before his appearance on Gilligan's Island, but it was very different. After graduating from high school, the star enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces as an aviation cadet. In a clever twist, he utilized the GI Bill money to pay for his acting courses — which led to him shooting to fame as the Professor. Some Viewers Thought the Show Was Real Some Gilligan's Island fans had a hard time distinguishing fiction from truth. When the show first aired, concerned individuals approached the American Coast Guard and asked them to assist the "stranded" Gilligan. According to one letter, "Why not send one US destroyer to rescue those unfortunate folks before they starve to death?" Well, maybe because it's just a TV show? The Coconut Cups Were Genuine To be honest, one of Gilligan's Island's weaknesses was its lack of realism. But now and again, what you saw on TV was the real deal. Producers utilized real hollowed-out coconuts for the characters to sip from in the early episodes. However, these handcrafted props quickly became soiled, and eventually, they were replaced with fake ones. The Professor Almost Had a Nephew Initially, the creators of Gilligan's Island considered giving the Professor a young family member on the desert island — a nephew, to be precise. Source: CBS/Getty Images Uncle Professor? It's not exactly easy to pronounce. Fortunately, the executives laughed it off since they already had a large child in the cast in the form of Gilligan himself. Schafer Just Wanted to Take Advantage of the Free Vacation Schafer has acknowledged that she only agreed to participate in the Gilligan's Island pilot because it included a free trip to Hawaii. That is the kind of woman we admire! Unfortunately, the plan backfired. The New Yorker was forced to relocate to Los Angeles once the program was picked up for a full season, and she was not pleased. She sobbed so much that many around her assumed there had been a death in the family at the time. The Seven Deadly Sins Were Represented by the Characters This topic is by far the weirdest of all the sources of inspiration for Gilligan's Island. Sherwood Schwartz said that each figure was supposed to symbolize one of the Bible's seven deadly sins. So, in addition to the slothful Gilligan, the Howells' avarice and gluttony, and lusty Ginger, there was jealous Mary Ann, haughty Professor, and wrathful Skipper. It makes a lot of sense. Mary Ann Was Almost a Secretary Called Bunny When the Gilligan's Island pilot got the green light, the cast was not the only thing that changed. Source: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images And if the producers had stuck to their original ideas for Mary Ann and Ginger, we would have had a completely different program. Both of them were supposed to be secretaries, and Mary Ann was to be called Bunny. Raquel Welch, a Relatively Unknown Actress, Was Turned Down by Producers Raquel Welch was one of the numerous actresses who tried out for the role of Mary Ann, but executives decided she wasn't wholesome enough. Source: Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images Welch, on the other hand, had the final laugh. She won a huge deal with 20th Century Fox just a year before Gilligan's Island was canceled, and the rest is film history. Dawn Wells Struck a Profitable Business Transaction Dawn Wells not only snagged a place as a Hollywood icon for the role of Mary Ann, but she was also assured that she would be rewarded for the rest of her life. Yes, the actress was the sole cast member who demanded more than a salary and short-term royalties, owing to her astute business sense. Every time an episode aired, the money kept rolling in for Wells. Alan Hale Jr. Once Fractured His Arm on Set When Alan Hale Jr. fell from a coconut tree, he fractured his arm. But, ever the hero, the actor pushed through the rest of the day's filming without seeking medical help. The actors may not have been truly trapped, but it didn't stop them from suffering from the occasional island-related injury. Such was the case with poor Hale. Bob Denver Came Dangerously Close to Being Mauled by a Lion On Gilligan's Island, Hale Jr. wasn't the only cast member who put his life on the line. Gilligan was lunged at by a lion during one especially perilous moment! Source: YouTube/Z-1's World of Wonders However, the on-set trainer's fast thinking saved Bob Denver's bacon. Fortunately, the only damage was to a pair of ripped-apart twin beds. Bob Denver Threatened to Have His Name Removed from the Credits at One Point Bob Denver was not only the most daring member of the ensemble, but he was also the most faithful. The actor once asked that his name be deleted from the show's opening credits unless the names of the Professor and Mary Ann were also included, even though they were simply acknowledged as "the rest" in the first season. CBS Promised the Creators a Fourth Season The third season of Gilligan's Island was, unfortunately, a ratings dud. Despite this, CBS persuaded Sherwood Schwartz to renew the show for a fourth season. What is the moral of the story? Nothing is secure in the television industry. The network terminated Gilligan's Island before season four was completed after being forced to give up its schedule to Gunsmoke. The Cast Purchased Homes Close to the Set The fact that several of the cast members were on vacation when the cancellation was announced made it all the more difficult. And the stars may have had a few choice words for Schwartz when they returned. He'd assured them that a fourth season was on the way, and a number of the cast members had bought houses near the California studio as a result of his promise. The Creator's Arch-Enemy Inspired the Name of the S.S. Minnow What was the origin of the name of the charter boat that shipwrecks the crew and passengers? Well, it was named after Newton Minow, Schwartz's arch-enemy. Source: YouTube/Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum After characterizing television programming as "a huge wasteland," the former president of the Federal Communications Commission attracted Schwartz's anger. We're sure Minow was laughing once he recognized the name. CBS had to be persuaded to produce the show The harsh decision by CBS to cancel Gilligan's Island was probably unsurprising. After all, the network had reservations about the show from the beginning. With his grumbles about needing to keep the characters on the island, Jim Aubrey didn't help matters. However, Aubrey was finally won over when it was agreed that the castaways would be rescued if the show's ratings dropped. Alan Hale Jr. Went Through a Secret Audition Process for the Part Alan Hale Jr. was determined to land the Gilligan's Island job by doing whatever was necessary. How badly did he want this audition? Enough to get away from the western he was shooting in Utah when he was told he couldn't go to his audition. The actor was ultimately rewarded for his efforts after a horseback ride, hitchhiking, and a trip to Los Angeles. Six Women Have played Ginger It's pretty unanimous Tina Louise perfectly portrayed the bombshell starlet, we all know as Ginger. Though she was not exactly enamored with the role like we have mentioned previously. In subsequent spin-offs and sequels, other actresses stepped in to play the role of Ginger. Initially, in that pilot, Kit Smythe filled the role, though the character was portrayed as a secretary. After Louise stepped away from the island forever, she was replaced in later TV movies (Rescue from Gilligan's Island, The Castaways) by Judith Baldwin. The Flag In The Opening Credits Is At Half-Mast As we mentioned previously, on the final day of production in Hawaii, the cast and crew learned of John F. Kennedy's assassination. There is a small, subtle reminder of this historical incident seen on the series. In the opening credits of the first season, as the Minnow pulls out of the harbor, the United States flag can be seen flying at half mast. It was Originally A "Six Hour Ride," Not A "Three Hour Tour." A more noticeable key difference between the pilot and the series is the duration of the charter. In the first theme song, the lyrics tell of a "six hour ride." Somewhere along the way in the creative process that itinerary was cut in half. We're not quite sure why there was the sudden decision made to take away three hours. The Howell's Didn't Have A Child & Then Did It is told on the original series that Lovey and Thurston Howell produced had no children. However, in the third and final (lets not forget bizarre) reunion movie The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island The couple all the sudden had a son. David Ruprecht, who was the host of the game show Supermarket Sweep was also included in the cast. This was due to the poor health of Jim Backus, the original Thurston. A Western Knockoff Of 'Gilligan's Island' called 'Dusty's Trail.' After Gilligan's Island, Schwartz hit the jackpot again with sitcom hit The Brady Bunch. However, his third was not a charm. In 1974, the creator-producer attempted to recreate Gilligan's Island in a Wild West setting. THE WACKIEST WAGON TRAIN IN THE WEST, US poster art, Bob Denver, (center), Forrest Tucker (r.), 1976 The end result was Dusty's Trail, which also starred Bob Denver alongside Forrest Tucker of F Troop fame. The pitch included a rich couple, a brainiac, a farm girl and a stunning bombshell. Unfortunately the show tanked after one season, though four episodes were stitched together to make the theatrical release The Wackiest Wagon Train in the West. The Estimated Location Of The Island Is About 250 Miles SE Of Hawaii Plenty of viewers of the show often question where the island is exactly? Throughout the three seasons a few different "somewhat specific" locations are given. In "'X' Marks the Spot," the island's position is said to be approximately 140º latitude by 10º longitude. (it should be noted these are impossible coordinates.) Copyright © 2015 Ray Bentz. All rights reserved. In the series episode "Big Man on a Little Stick," their position is stated as approximately 110º longitude by 10º latitude. These coordinates would put the island a ways off Mexico's Pacific coast. Finally, in "It's a Bird, It's a Plane," the U.S. Navy spots Gilligan flying over the island in a jet pack. They report the location as 250 miles south of Hawaii!
'X-Men: Apocalypse' Actor Lucas Till Cast As Young MacGyver March 21, 2016 in MATT O'S ARCHIVE, NEWS AND RUMORS The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that X-Men star Lucas Till has been cast as the young MacGyver in CBS' MacGyver reboot. The follows a 20 something your old MacGyver as he is recruited into a clandestine organization. As with the original this young MacGyver will be a super art problem solver, and will use his skill set to take down badgers and prevent disasters. Get the finer details from THR below: "Following a lengthy and extensive casting search, CBS has found its new MacGyver. X-Men alum Lucas Till has been tapped to take on the character that was originally made famous by Richard Dean Anderson, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Additionally, Joshua Boone has joined the drama pilot as a series regular. CBS' MacGyver is described as a reimagining of the television series of the same name. It follows a 20-something MacGyver (Till) as he gets recruited into a clandestine organization where he uses his knack for solving problems in unconventional ways to help prevent disasters from happening." Sound off in the comments with your thoughts on Till's casting. Do you think he is a good fit for MacGyver? No release date is set for The MacGyver pilot. Lucas Till can next be seen on the big-screen as the character Havoc in 20th Century Fox's X-Men: Apocalypse. Tags: ECMOVIEGUYS, MacGyver Reboot, MOVIENEWS EASTCOASTMOVIEGUYS, CBS, eastcoastmovieguys, Eastcoastmovieguys.com, ECMG, MACGYVER
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